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openSUSE Security Update : libsoup (openSUSE-2017-914)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 102468

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for libsoup fixes the following issues :

 - A bug in the HTTP Chunked Encoding code has been fixed that could have been exploited by attackers to cause a stack-based buffer overflow in client or server code running libsoup (bsc#1052916, CVE-2017-2885).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected libsoup packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1052916

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 102468

File Name: openSUSE-2017-914.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-2_4-1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-2_4-1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-2_4-1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-2_4-1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-soup-2_4

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2885