SUSE SLES12 Security Update : glib2 (SUSE-SU-2019:1596-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 126152

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for glib2 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-12450: Fixed an improper file permission when copy operation takes place (bsc#1137001).

CVE-2018-16428: Avoid a NULL pointer dereference (bsc#1107121).

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

Some exploitable parser bugs in GVariant and GDBus subsystems were fixed (bsc#1111499).

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-SP1-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2019-1596=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2019-1596=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107116

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107121

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111499

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1137001

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16428/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16429/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12450/

http://www.nessus.org/u?c1c913c0

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 126152

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1596-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/24/2019

Updated: 5/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 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-2019-12450

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:suse_linux:libgio-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-2_0-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libglib-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libglib-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libglib-2_0-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgmodule-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgmodule-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgmodule-2_0-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgobject-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgobject-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgobject-2_0-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgthread-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgthread-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgthread-2_0-0-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-2_0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/21/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16428, CVE-2018-16429, CVE-2019-12450