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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2017:0701-1)

🗓️ 16 Mar 2017 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update: open-vm-tools v10.1.0 stable with new features, bug fixes, and security enhancements including GTK3 support, guest authentication with xmlsec1, and fixes for CVE-2015-5191 and quiesced snapshot failure (bsc#1006796)

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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 SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2017:0701-1.
# The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(97774);
  script_version("3.16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/12/30");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-5191");

  script_name(english:"SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2017:0701-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"This update for open-vm-tools to 10.1.0 stable brings features, fixes
bugs and security issues :

  - New vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility

  - GTK3 support

  - Common Agent Framework (CAF)

  - Guest authentication with xmlsec1

  - Sub-command to push updated network information to the
    host on demand

  - Fix for quiesced snapshot failure leaving guest file
    system quiesced (bsc#1006796)

  - Fix for CVE-2015-5191 (bsc#1007600)

  - Report SLES for SAP 12 guest OS as SLES 12 (bsc#1013496)

  - Add udev rule to increase VMware virtual disk timeout
    values (bsc#994598)

  - Fix vmtoolsd init script to run vmtoolsd in background
    (bsc#971031)

  - Fix copy-n-paste and drag-n-drop regressions
    (bsc#978424)

  - Add new vmblock-fuse.service

  - Fix a suspend with systemd issue (bsc#913727)

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=1006796");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007600");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1011057");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1013496");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1024200");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913727");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=938593");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=941384");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971031");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=978424");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985110");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=994598");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5191/");
  # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20170701-1/
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?895f9cee");
  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 Server 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2017-384=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch
SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2017-384=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  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:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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-2015-5191");

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

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/07/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/03/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/03/16");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvmtools0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvmtools0-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-desktop");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  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);
if (cpu >!< "x86_64") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "x86_64", cpu);


sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLES12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(1)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES12 SP1", os_ver + " SP" + sp);
if (os_ver == "SLED12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(1)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLED12 SP1", os_ver + " SP" + sp);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvmtools0-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-desktop-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvmtools0-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-desktop-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-10.1.0-5.3.1")) 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, "open-vm-tools");
}

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