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openSUSE Security Update : libsoup (openSUSE-2018-856)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 111637

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for libsoup fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

 - CVE-2018-12910: Fix crash when handling empty hostnames (bsc#1100097).

 - CVE-2017-2885: Fix chunk decoding buffer overrun that could be exploited against either clients or servers (bsc#1052916).

Bug fixes :

 - bsc#1086036: translation-update-upstream commented out for Leap

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected libsoup packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1052916

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1086036

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1100097

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 111637

File Name: openSUSE-2018-856.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/10/2018

Updated: 8/22/2024

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-2018-12910

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:libsoup-2_4-1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-2_4-1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-2_4-1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-2_4-1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoup-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:typelib-1_0-soup-2_4

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: 8/9/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2885, CVE-2018-12910