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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.4.2017.1773.1
Category:SuSE Local Security Checks
Title:SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2017:1773-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'systemd' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2017:1773-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'systemd' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2017:1773-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
This update for systemd fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2017-9217: resolved: Fix null pointer p->question dereferencing that could lead to resolved aborting (bsc#1040614)

The update also fixed several non-security bugs:

- core/mount: Use the '-c' flag to not canonicalize paths when calling /bin/umount
- automount: Handle expire_tokens when the mount unit changes its state (bsc#1040942)
- automount: Rework propagation between automount and mount units
- build: Make sure tmpfiles.d/systemd-remote.conf get installed when necessary
- build: Fix systemd-journal-upload installation
- basic: Detect XEN Dom0 as no virtualization (bsc#1036873)
- virt: Make sure some errors are not ignored
- fstab-generator: Do not skip Before= ordering for noauto mountpoints
- fstab-gen: Do not convert device timeout into seconds when initializing JobTimeoutSec
- core/device: Use JobRunningTimeoutSec= for device units (bsc#1004995)
- fstab-generator: Apply the _netdev option also to device units (bsc#1004995)
- job: Add JobRunningTimeoutSec for JOB_RUNNING state (bsc#1004995)
- job: Ensure JobRunningTimeoutSec= survives serialization (bsc#1004995)
- rules: Export NVMe WWID udev attribute (bsc#1038865)
- rules: Introduce disk/by-id (model_serial) symbolic links for NVMe drives
- rules: Add rules for NVMe devices
- sysusers: Make group shadow support configurable (bsc#1029516)
- core: When deserializing a unit, fully restore its cgroup state (bsc#1029102)
- core: Introduce cg_mask_from_string()/cg_mask_to_string()
- core:execute: Fix handling failures of calling fork() in exec_spawn() (bsc#1040258)
- Fix systemd-sysv-convert when a package starts shipping service units (bsc#982303)
The database might be missing when upgrading a package which was
shipping no sysv init scripts nor unit files (at the time --save was
called) but the new version start shipping unit files.
- Disable group shadow support (bsc#1029516)
- Only check signature job error if signature job exists (bsc#1043758)

Affected Software/OS:
'systemd' package(s) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12-SP2.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-9217
BugTraq ID: 98677
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98677
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