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openSUSE 10 Security Update : yast2-core (yast2-core-4634)

🗓️ 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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 nessus
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This update fixes a security bug in yast2-core that allowed local attackers to provide malicious yast2 modules to yast2 that are executed with root privileges. Thanks to Stefan Nordhausen for reporting this to us

Code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update yast2-core-4634.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(28180);
  script_version("1.9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE 10 Security Update : yast2-core (yast2-core-4634)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the yast2-core-4634 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This update fixes a security bug in yast2-core that allowed local
attackers to provide malicious yast2 modules to yast2 that are
executed with root privileges. To trigger this vulnerability root has
to execute yast2 in an untrusted directory (i.e. /tmp). Thanks to
Stefan Nordhausen for reporting this to us."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected yast2-core packages."
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"High");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:yast2-core");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:yast2-core-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/11/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/12");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  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 !~ "^(SUSE10\.1|SUSE10\.2|SUSE10\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "10.1 / 10.2 / 10.3", 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:"SUSE10.1", reference:"yast2-core-2.13.23.1-0.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.1", reference:"yast2-core-devel-2.13.23.1-0.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.2", reference:"yast2-core-2.14.5-0.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.2", reference:"yast2-core-devel-2.14.5-0.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.3", reference:"yast2-core-2.15.13-0.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.3", reference:"yast2-core-devel-2.15.13-0.1") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "YaST2");
}

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