Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-0420 - Unspecified vulnerability in Opensuse Zypper 0.11.6/1.0.2/1.6.16

047910
CVSS 4.4 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
local
opensuse
nessus

Summary

zypp-refresh-wrapper in SUSE Zypper before 1.3.20 and 1.6.x before 1.6.166 allows local users to create files in arbitrary directories, or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a pathname in the ZYPP_LOCKFILE_ROOT environment variable.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Opensuse
4

Nessus

NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
NASL idSUSE_11_ZYPPER-120710.NASL
descriptionThe following issue has been fixed : - The zypper setuid wrapper linked against libzypp. This is not needed and added unnecessary attack vectors. CVE-2012-0420 has been assigned to this issue.
last seen2020-06-05
modified2013-01-25
plugin id64242
published2013-01-25
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/64242
titleSuSE 11.1 / 11.2 Security Update : zypper (SAT Patch Numbers 6527 / 6528)
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself is
# copyright (C) Novell, Inc.
#

if (NASL_LEVEL < 3000) exit(0);

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(64242);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-0420");

  script_name(english:"SuSE 11.1 / 11.2 Security Update : zypper (SAT Patch Numbers 6527 / 6528)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The following issue has been fixed :

  - The zypper setuid wrapper linked against libzypp. This
    is not needed and added unnecessary attack vectors.
    CVE-2012-0420 has been assigned to this issue."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770630"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0420.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Apply SAT patch number 6527 / 6528 as appropriate."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:zypper");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:zypper-log");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/07/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/01/25");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 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/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)11") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SuSE 11");
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 11", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"i586", reference:"zypper-1.3.21-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"zypper-1.3.21-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:2, cpu:"i586", reference:"zypper-1.6.166-0.5.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:2, cpu:"i586", reference:"zypper-log-1.6.166-0.5.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:2, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"zypper-1.6.166-0.5.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:2, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"zypper-log-1.6.166-0.5.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, reference:"zypper-1.3.21-0.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:2, reference:"zypper-1.6.166-0.5.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:2, reference:"zypper-log-1.6.166-0.5.1")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");