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openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-puppet (openSUSE-2018-174)

🗓️ 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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openSUSE Security Update for rubygem-puppet. Fixes CVE-2017-10689 to reset permissions during tar unpacking

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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-2018-174.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(106892);
  script_version("3.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/10/29");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-10689");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-puppet (openSUSE-2018-174)");

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

  - CVE-2017-10689: Reset permissions when unpacking tar in
    PMT. When using minitar, files are unpacked with
    whatever permissions are in the tarball. This is
    potentially unsafe, as tarballs can be easily created
    with weird permissions (boo#1080288)");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080288");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected rubygem-puppet packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-10689");

  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:"2018/02/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/02/20");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.1-rubygem-puppet");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.1-rubygem-puppet-testsuite");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.2-rubygem-puppet");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.2-rubygem-puppet-testsuite");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.3-rubygem-puppet");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.3-rubygem-puppet-testsuite");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.4-rubygem-puppet");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ruby2.4-rubygem-puppet-testsuite");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rubygem-puppet");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rubygem-puppet-emacs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rubygem-puppet-master");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rubygem-puppet-master-unicorn");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rubygem-puppet-vim");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2025 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\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "42.3", 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:"SUSE42.3", reference:"ruby2.1-rubygem-puppet-3.8.7-23.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"ruby2.1-rubygem-puppet-testsuite-3.8.7-23.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"ruby2.2-rubygem-puppet-3.8.7-23.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"ruby2.2-rubygem-puppet-testsuite-3.8.7-23.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"ruby2.3-rubygem-puppet-3.8.7-23.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"ruby2.3-rubygem-puppet-testsuite-3.8.7-23.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"ruby2.4-rubygem-puppet-3.8.7-23.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"ruby2.4-rubygem-puppet-testsuite-3.8.7-23.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"rubygem-puppet-3.8.7-23.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"rubygem-puppet-emacs-3.8.7-23.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"rubygem-puppet-master-3.8.7-23.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"rubygem-puppet-master-unicorn-3.8.7-23.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"rubygem-puppet-vim-3.8.7-23.1") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "ruby2.1-rubygem-puppet / ruby2.1-rubygem-puppet-testsuite / etc");
}

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