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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2019:0428-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122340

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for systemd fixes the following issues :

Security vulnerability fixed :

CVE-2019-6454: Fixed a crash of PID1 by sending specially crafted D-BUS message on the system bus by an unprivileged user (bsc#1125352)

Other bug fixes and changes: journal-remote: set a limit on the number of fields in a message

journal-remote: verify entry length from header

journald: set a limit on the number of fields (1k)

journald: do not store the iovec entry for process commandline on stack

core: include Found state in device dumps

device: fix serialization and deserialization of DeviceFound

fix path in btrfs rule (#6844)

assemble multidevice btrfs volumes without external tools (#6607) (bsc#1117025)

Update systemd-system.conf.xml (bsc#1122000)

units: inform user that the default target is started after exiting from rescue or emergency mode

manager: don't skip sigchld handler for main and control pid for services (#3738)

core: Add helper functions unit_{main, control}_pid

manager: Fixing a debug printf formatting mistake (#3640)

manager: Only invoke a single sigchld per unit within a cleanup cycle (bsc#1117382)

core: update invoke_sigchld_event() to handle NULL ->sigchld_event()

sd-event: expose the event loop iteration counter via sd_event_get_iteration() (#3631)

unit: rework a bit how we keep the service fdstore from being destroyed during service restart (bsc#1122344)

core: when restarting services, don't close fds

cryptsetup: Add dependency on loopback setup to generated units

journal-gateway: use localStorage['cursor'] only when it has valid value

journal-gateway: explicitly declare local variables

analyze: actually select longest activated-time of services

sd-bus: fix implicit downcast of bitfield reported by LGTM

core: free lines after reading them (bsc#1123892)

pam_systemd: reword message about not creating a session (bsc#1111498)

pam_systemd: suppress LOG_DEBUG log messages if debugging is off (bsc#1111498)

main: improve RLIMIT_NOFILE handling (#5795) (bsc#1120658)

sd-bus: if we receive an invalid dbus message, ignore and proceeed

automount: don't pass non-blocking pipe to kernel.

units: make sure initrd-cleanup.service terminates before switching to rootfs (bsc#1123333)

units: add Wants=initrd-cleanup.service to initrd-switch-root.target (#4345) (bsc#1123333)

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2019-428=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-428=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2019-428=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-428=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-428=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-428=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-428=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2019-428=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-428=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2019-428=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-4-2019-428=1

SUSE CaaS Platform ALL :

To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform Velum dashboard. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.

SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 :

To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform Velum dashboard. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.

OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Magnum-Orchestration-7-2019-428=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111498

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117025

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117382

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120658

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1122000

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1122344

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123333

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123892

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125352

http://www.nessus.org/u?70e14832

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122340

File Name: suse_SU-2019-0428-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/20/2019

Updated: 1/13/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsystemd0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libudev1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:systemd-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udev-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6454