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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openslp (SUSE-SU-2018:2991-2)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 118299

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for openslp fixes the following issues :

CVE-2017-17833: Prevent heap-related memory corruption issue which may have manifested itself as a denial-of-service or a remote code-execution vulnerability (bsc#1090638)

Prevent out of bounds reads in message parsing

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 Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2018-2132=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090638

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17833/

http://www.nessus.org/u?b2ad14be

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 118299

File Name: suse_SU-2018-2991-2.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/22/2018

Updated: 2/4/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-17833

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openslp-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openslp-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openslp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openslp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openslp-debugsource

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: 10/18/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-17833