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openSUSE Security Update : util-linux (openSUSE-2017-306)

🗓️ 07 Mar 2017 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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OpenSUSE Security Update for util-linux (openSUSE-2017-306) addressing local privilege escalation and multiple fixes for non-security issues

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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
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# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2017-306.
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# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
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  script_id(97565);
  script_version("3.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/12/30");

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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"This update for util-linux fixes the following issues :

This security issue was fixed :

  - CVE-2017-2616: In su with PAM support it was possible
    for local users to send SIGKILL to selected other
    processes with root privileges (bsc#1023041).

This non-security issues were fixed :

  - lscpu: Implement WSL detection and work around crash
    (bsc#1019332)

  - fstrim: De-duplicate btrfs sub-volumes for 'fstrim -a'
    and bind mounts (bsc#1020077)

  - Fix regressions in safe loop re-use patch set for
    libmount (bsc#1012504)

  - Disable ro checks for mtab (bsc#1012632)

  - Ensure that the option 'users,exec,dev,suid' work as
    expected on NFS mounts (bsc#1008965)

  - Fix empty slave detection to prevent 100% CPU load in
    some cases (bsc#1020985)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1020077");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1020985");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1023041");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
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  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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-2017-2616");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfdisk-devel");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfdisk1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfdisk1-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmount-devel");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmartcols-devel");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmartcols1");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libuuid-devel");
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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\.2)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "42.2", 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:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libblkid-devel-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libblkid-devel-static-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libblkid1-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libblkid1-debuginfo-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libfdisk-devel-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libfdisk-devel-static-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libfdisk1-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libfdisk1-debuginfo-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libmount-devel-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libmount-devel-static-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libmount1-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libmount1-debuginfo-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libsmartcols-devel-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libsmartcols-devel-static-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libsmartcols1-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libsmartcols1-debuginfo-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libuuid-devel-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libuuid-devel-static-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libuuid1-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libuuid1-debuginfo-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"python-libmount-2.28-10.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"python-libmount-debuginfo-2.28-10.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"python-libmount-debugsource-2.28-10.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"util-linux-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"util-linux-debuginfo-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"util-linux-debugsource-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"util-linux-lang-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"util-linux-systemd-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"util-linux-systemd-debuginfo-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"util-linux-systemd-debugsource-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"uuidd-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"uuidd-debuginfo-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libblkid-devel-32bit-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libblkid1-32bit-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libblkid1-debuginfo-32bit-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libmount-devel-32bit-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libmount1-32bit-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libmount1-debuginfo-32bit-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libuuid-devel-32bit-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libuuid1-32bit-2.28-10.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libuuid1-debuginfo-32bit-2.28-10.1") ) 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, "python-libmount / python-libmount-debuginfo / etc");
}

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