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SUSE SLED12 Security Update : yaml-cpp (SUSE-SU-2018:0631-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 107214

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for yaml-cpp fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2017-5950: Stack overflow in SingleDocParser::HandleNode() function (bsc#1032144)

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 Workstation Extension 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP3-2018-423=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP2-2018-423=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-423=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2018-423=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032144

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5950/

http://www.nessus.org/u?5163b950

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 107214

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0631-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/8/2018

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/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:yaml-cpp-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libyaml-cpp0_5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libyaml-cpp0_5

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: 3/7/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5950