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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openjpeg2 (SUSE-SU-2017:2144-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 102477

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for openjpeg2 fixes the following issues :

 - CVE 2016-7163: Integer Overflow could lead to remote code execution (bsc#997857).

 - CVE 2015-8871: Use-after-free in opj_j2k_write_mco function could lead to denial of service (bsc#979907).

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-SP2-2017-1325=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2017-1325=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-1325=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2017-1325=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-1325=1

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

See Also

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8871/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7163/

http://www.nessus.org/u?9c3a57a0

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979907

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997857

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 102477

File Name: suse_SU-2017-2144-1.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2017

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openjpeg2-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenjp2-7-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openjpeg2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenjp2

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: 8/11/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8871, CVE-2016-7163