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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : python (SUSE-SU-2018:3156-1)

2018-10-1700:00:00
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This update for python fixes the following issue :

CVE-2018-14647: Python’s elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat’s hash salt during initialization. This could make it easy to conduct denial of service attacks against Expat by constructing an XML document that would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat’s internal data structures, consuming large amounts CPU and RAM (bsc#1109847)

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-2018:3156-1.
# The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(118171);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-14647");

  script_name(english:"SUSE SLES11 Security Update : python (SUSE-SU-2018:3156-1)");
  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:
"This update for python fixes the following issue :

CVE-2018-14647: Python's elementtree C accelerator failed to
initialise Expat's hash salt during initialization. This could make it
easy to conduct denial of service attacks against Expat by
constructing an XML document that would cause pathological hash
collisions in Expat's internal data structures, consuming large
amounts CPU and RAM (bsc#1109847)

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=1109847"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14647/"
  );
  # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20183156-1/
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?478b49e9"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t
patch sdksp4-python-13818=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch
slessp4-python-13818=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch
dbgsp4-python-13818=1"
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython2_6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython2_6-1_0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-base");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-curses");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-demo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-gdbm");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-idle");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-tk");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-xml");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/09/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/10/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/10/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2021 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:"^(SLES11)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLES11", "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 == "SLES11" && (! preg(pattern:"^(4)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES11 SP4", os_ver + " SP" + sp);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libpython2_6-1_0-32bit-2.6.9-40.21.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"python-32bit-2.6.9-40.21.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"python-base-32bit-2.6.9-40.21.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libpython2_6-1_0-32bit-2.6.9-40.21.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", cpu:"s390x", reference:"python-32bit-2.6.9-40.21.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", cpu:"s390x", reference:"python-base-32bit-2.6.9-40.21.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"libpython2_6-1_0-2.6.9-40.21.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"python-2.6.9-40.21.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"python-base-2.6.9-40.21.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"python-curses-2.6.9-40.21.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"python-demo-2.6.9-40.21.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"python-gdbm-2.6.9-40.21.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"python-idle-2.6.9-40.21.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"python-tk-2.6.9-40.21.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"python-xml-2.6.9-40.21.1")) 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");
}
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