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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tar (SUSE-SU-2021:0975-1)

2021-03-3000:00:00
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This update for tar fixes the following issues :

  • CVE-2021-20193: Memory leak in read_header() in list.c (bsc#1181131)

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.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2021:0975-1.
# The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(148233);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/04/02");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-20193");

  script_name(english:"SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tar (SUSE-SU-2021:0975-1)");
  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 tar fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2021-20193: Memory leak in read_header() in list.c
    (bsc#1181131)

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=1181131"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20193/"
  );
  # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2021/suse-su-20210975-1
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?278a556b"
  );
  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 Server 12-SP5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2021-975=1"
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:L/PR:N/UI:R/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-2021-20193");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tar");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tar-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tar-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/03/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/03/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/03/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 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:"^(SLES12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE 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:"^(5)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES12 SP5", os_ver + " SP" + sp);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"5", reference:"tar-1.27.1-15.9.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"5", reference:"tar-debuginfo-1.27.1-15.9.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"5", reference:"tar-debugsource-1.27.1-15.9.1")) 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, "tar");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
novellsuse_linuxtarp-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tar
novellsuse_linuxtar-debuginfop-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tar-debuginfo
novellsuse_linuxtar-debugsourcep-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tar-debugsource
novellsuse_linux12cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12