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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : squidGuard (SUSE-SU-2017:1411-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 100459

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

squidGuard was updated to fix one security issue :

 - CVE-2015-8936: Reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability because of insufficient escaping (bsc#985612).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-868=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-868=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985612

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8936/

http://www.nessus.org/u?b2b53937

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 100459

File Name: suse_SU-2017-1411-1.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:squidguard-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:squidguard-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:squidguard, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:squidguard-doc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8936