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openSUSE Security Update : quassel (openSUSE-2018-409)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 109536

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for quassel fixes the following issues :

Security fixes (boo#1090495) :

 - CVE-2018-1000178: A heap metadata corruption in qdatastream could have been exploited to launch an unauthenticated remote code execution

 - CVE-2018-1000179: A remote attacker could have caused a Denial of Service attack by initiating login attempts before the core got initialized

The following tracked packaging change is included :

 - boo#1069468: no longer use /var/adm/fillup-templates

This update also includes various small bug fixes in the upstream 0.12.4 release.

Solution

Update the affected quassel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1069468

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1090495

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 109536

File Name: openSUSE-2018-409.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/3/2018

Updated: 10/15/2024

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

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000178

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-client-qt5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-client-qt5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-mono, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-mono-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-core-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-core, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:quassel-client-debuginfo

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: 5/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000178, CVE-2018-1000179