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openSUSE Security Update : glib2 (openSUSE-2018-1485)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 119493

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for glib2 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

 - CVE-2018-16428: Do not do a NULL pointer dereference (crash). Avoid that, at the cost of introducing a new translatable error message (bsc#1107121).

 - CVE-2018-16429: Fixed out-of-bounds read vulnerability ing_markup_parse_context_parse() (bsc#1107116).

Non-security issue fixed :

 - various GVariant parsing issues have been resolved (bsc#1111499)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected glib2 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1107116

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1107121

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1111499

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 119493

File Name: openSUSE-2018-1485.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2018

Updated: 7/16/2024

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-2018-16428

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:libglib-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgobject-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgmodule-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgthread-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgio-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libglib-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgmodule-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgmodule-2_0-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgmodule-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gio-branding-upstream, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgthread-2_0-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgobject-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgobject-2_0-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libglib-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgio-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgio-fam-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgobject-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgio-fam-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libglib-2_0-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgio-fam-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgio-2_0-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-devel-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-tools-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgthread-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgio-fam, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-tools-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgio-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgthread-2_0-0

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: 12/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16428, CVE-2018-16429