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openSUSE Security Update : links (openSUSE-2018-330)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 108785

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for links to version 2.15 fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2017-11114: Buffer over-read vulnerability in case of corrupted UTF-8 data (boo#1051448)

This update also contains a number of upstream improvements :

 - Rewrite google docs URLs to the download link, so that the file can be viewed in external viewer

 - Improved handling of compressed connections and content

 - various other bug fixes and improvements

Solution

Update the affected links packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051448

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 108785

File Name: openSUSE-2018-330.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/2/2018

Updated: 11/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-11114

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:links-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:links-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:links

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11114