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openSUSE Security Update : kauth (openSUSE-2019-242)

high Nessus Plugin ID 122443

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for kauth fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

 - CVE-2019-7443: Fixed an insecure handling of arguments in helpers by removing the support of passing gui variants (bsc#1124863).

Solution

Update the affected kauth packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124863

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 122443

File Name: openSUSE-2019-242.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/26/2019

Updated: 6/18/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-7443

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libkf5auth5-lang, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libkf5auth5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:kauth-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libkf5auth5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libkf5auth5-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:kauth-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:kauth-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libkf5auth5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-7443