SUSE Supportutils Input Validation Error Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-39164)

SUSE Supportutils is a collection of utility programs used in SUSE Linux systems from SUSE Germany. The product has the ability to collect system troubleshooting information, read and interpret the basic-health-check.txt file, and perform a brief analysis of the kernel core files. An input...

Command injection

Supportutils, before version 3.1-5.7.1, when run with command line argument -A searched the file system for a ndspath binary. If an attacker provides one at an arbitrary location it is executed with root privileges...

Command injection

If supportutils before version 3.1-5.7.1 is run with -v to perform rpm verification and the attacker manages to manipulate the rpm listing e.g. with CVE-2018-19638 he can execute arbitrary commands as root...

Directory traversal

If the attacker manages to create files in the directory used to collect log files in supportutils before version 3.1-5.7.1 e.g. with CVE-2018-19638 he can kill arbitrary processes on the local machine...

CVE-2018-19636

Supportutils, before version 3.1-5.7.1, when run with command line argument -A searched the file system for a ndspath binary. If an attacker provides one at an arbitrary location it is executed with root privileges...

CVE-2018-19640

If the attacker manages to create files in the directory used to collect log files in supportutils before version 3.1-5.7.1 e.g. with CVE-2018-19638 he can kill arbitrary processes on the local machine...

CVE-2018-19639

If supportutils before version 3.1-5.7.1 is run with -v to perform rpm verification and the attacker manages to manipulate the rpm listing e.g. with CVE-2018-19638 he can execute arbitrary commands as root...