CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
polkit was updated to the 0.113 release, fixing security issues and bugs.
Security issues fixed :
Fixes CVE-2015-4625, a local privilege escalation due to predictable authentication session cookie values. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Project Zero for reporting this issue. For the future, authentication agents are encouraged to use PolkitAgentSession instead of using the D-Bus agent response API directly. (bsc#935119)
Fixes CVE-2015-3256, various memory corruption vulnerabilities in use of the JavaScript interpreter, possibly leading to local privilege escalation.
(bsc#943816)
Fixes CVE-2015-3255, a memory corruption vulnerability in handling duplicate action IDs, possibly leading to local privilege escalation. Thanks to Laurent Bigonville for reporting this issue. (bsc#939246)
Fixes CVE-2015-3218, which allowed any local user to crash polkitd. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Project Zero, for reporting this issue. (bsc#933922)
Other issues fixed :
On systemd-213 and later, the ‘active’ state is shared across all sessions of an user, instead of being tracked separately.
pkexec, when not given a program to execute, runs the users shell by default.
Fixed shutdown problems on powerpc64le (bsc#950114)
polkit had a memory leak (bsc#912889)
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.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2015:1838-1.
# The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(86649);
script_version("2.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-3218", "CVE-2015-3255", "CVE-2015-3256", "CVE-2015-4625");
script_bugtraq_id(75267);
script_name(english:"SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : polkit (SUSE-SU-2015:1838-1)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"polkit was updated to the 0.113 release, fixing security issues and
bugs.
Security issues fixed :
- Fixes CVE-2015-4625, a local privilege escalation due to
predictable authentication session cookie values. Thanks
to Tavis Ormandy, Google Project Zero for reporting this
issue. For the future, authentication agents are
encouraged to use PolkitAgentSession instead of using
the D-Bus agent response API directly. (bsc#935119)
- Fixes CVE-2015-3256, various memory corruption
vulnerabilities in use of the JavaScript interpreter,
possibly leading to local privilege escalation.
(bsc#943816)
- Fixes CVE-2015-3255, a memory corruption vulnerability
in handling duplicate action IDs, possibly leading to
local privilege escalation. Thanks to Laurent Bigonville
for reporting this issue. (bsc#939246)
- Fixes CVE-2015-3218, which allowed any local user to
crash polkitd. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Project
Zero, for reporting this issue. (bsc#933922)
Other issues fixed :
- On systemd-213 and later, the 'active' state is shared
across all sessions of an user, instead of being tracked
separately.
- pkexec, when not given a program to execute, runs the
users shell by default.
- Fixed shutdown problems on powerpc64le (bsc#950114)
- polkit had a memory leak (bsc#912889)
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."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912889"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=933922"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=935119"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=939246"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=943816"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950114"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3218/"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3255/"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3256/"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4625/"
);
# https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2015/suse-su-20151838-1.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?e9a03389"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-2015-759=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-759=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-759=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-759=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpolkit0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpolkit0-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:polkit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:polkit-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:polkit-debugsource");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-Polkit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/10/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/10/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/10/29");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");
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, "SUSE");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLED12|SLES12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLED12 / SLES12", "SUSE " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu);
sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLES12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(0)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES12 SP0", os_ver + " SP" + sp);
if (os_ver == "SLED12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(0)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLED12 SP0", os_ver + " SP" + sp);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"0", reference:"libpolkit0-0.113-4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"0", reference:"libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.113-4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"0", reference:"polkit-0.113-4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"0", reference:"polkit-debuginfo-0.113-4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"0", reference:"polkit-debugsource-0.113-4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"0", reference:"typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.113-4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libpolkit0-0.113-4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libpolkit0-32bit-0.113-4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libpolkit0-debuginfo-0.113-4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libpolkit0-debuginfo-32bit-0.113-4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"polkit-0.113-4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"polkit-debuginfo-0.113-4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"polkit-debugsource-0.113-4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0-0.113-4.1")) 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, "polkit");
}
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3218
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3255
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3256
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4625
www.nessus.org/u?e9a03389
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912889
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=933922
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=935119
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=939246
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=943816
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950114
www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3218/
www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3255/
www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3256/
www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4625/