SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : p7zip (SUSE-SU-2018:0464-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106897

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for p7zip fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2016-1372: Fixed multiple vulnerabilities when processing crafted 7z files (bsc#984650)

- CVE-2017-17969: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in a shrink decoder (bsc#1077725)

- CVE-2018-5996: Fixed memory corruption in RAR decompression. The complete RAR decoder was removed as it also has license issues (bsc#1077724 bsc#1077978)

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-SP2-2018-319=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-319=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2018-319=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-319=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2018-319=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077724

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077725

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077978

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984650

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1372/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17969/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5996/

http://www.nessus.org/u?b2433433

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106897

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0464-1.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/20/2018

Updated: 9/10/2019

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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:p7zip-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:p7zip-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:p7zip

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: 2/16/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/3/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1372, CVE-2017-17969, CVE-2018-5996