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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : SUSE Manager Client Tools (SUSE-SU-2016:1366-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 91297

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for SUSE Manager Client Tools provides the following fixes and enhancements :

rhnlib :

 - Use TLSv1_METHOD in SSL Context (bsc#970989)

suseRegisterInfo :

 - Fix file permissions (bsc#970550)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-client-tools-21-201602-12567=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970550

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970989

http://www.nessus.org/u?6913b54d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91297

File Name: suse_SU-2016-1366-1.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/23/2016

Updated: 4/2/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rhnlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:suseregisterinfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2016