SUSE-SU-2019:13976-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2019-03-12 17:40 - Updated: 2019-03-12 17:40
Summary
Security update for supportutils
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for supportutils
Description of the patch: This update for supportutils fixes the following issues: Security vulnerabilities fixed: - CVE-2018-19636: Local root exploit via inclusion of attacker controlled shell script (bsc#1117751) - CVE-2018-19640: Users can kill arbitrary processes (bsc#1118463) - CVE-2018-19638: User can overwrite arbitrary log files in support tar (bsc#1118460) - CVE-2018-19639: Code execution if run with -v (bsc#1118462)
Patchnames: sleposp3-supportutils-13976,slessp4-supportutils-13976
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2018-19636
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3:supportutils-1.20-122.9.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4:supportutils-1.20-122.9.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4:supportutils-1.20-122.9.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact important
CVE-2018-19638
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products
Recommended 3 products, the same list as for CVE-2018-19636
Threats
Impact low
CVE-2018-19639
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Recommended 3 products, the same list as for CVE-2018-19636
Threats
Impact important
CVE-2018-19640
5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Recommended 3 products, the same list as for CVE-2018-19636
Threats
Impact moderate
References
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