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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : dovecot22 (SUSE-SU-2018:1125-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 109548

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for dovecot22 fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2017-14461: dovecot22: rfc822_parse_domain (bsc#1082826) Information Leak Vulnerability

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-773=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-773=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082826

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14461/

http://www.nessus.org/u?74df8998

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 109548

File Name: suse_SU-2018-1125-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/3/2018

Updated: 10/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-14461

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot22-backend-sqlite-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot22-backend-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot22-backend-pgsql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot22-backend-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot22-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot22-backend-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot22-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot22, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dovecot22-backend-mysql

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: 5/2/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14461