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openSUSE Security Update : krb5 (openSUSE-2016-1065)

🗓️ 09 Sep 2016 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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 nessus
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The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update for krb5, fixing a denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2016-3120)

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2016-1065.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(93393);
  script_version("2.8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2026/01/27");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-3120");
  script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2016-B-0115-S");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : krb5 (openSUSE-2016-1065)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"This update for krb5 fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2016-3120: KDC NULL pointer Dereference Denial Of
    Service Vulnerability (bsc#991088)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991088");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected krb5 packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-3120");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/09/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/09/09");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-32bit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-client");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-client-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-debuginfo-32bit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-devel-32bit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-mini");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-mini-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-mini-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-mini-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-plugin-preauth-otp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-plugin-preauth-otp-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-server");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-server-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2026 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE42\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "42.1", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);

flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-client-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-client-debuginfo-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-debuginfo-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-debugsource-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-devel-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-mini-1.12.1-36.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-mini-debuginfo-1.12.1-36.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-mini-debugsource-1.12.1-36.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-mini-devel-1.12.1-36.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap-debuginfo-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-plugin-preauth-otp-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-plugin-preauth-otp-debuginfo-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit-debuginfo-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-server-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"krb5-server-debuginfo-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"krb5-32bit-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"krb5-debuginfo-32bit-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"krb5-devel-32bit-1.12.1-36.3") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "krb5-mini / krb5-mini-debuginfo / krb5-mini-debugsource / etc");
}

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