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openSUSE Security Update : shadowsocks-libev (openSUSE-2019-2667)

high Nessus Plugin ID 131992

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for shadowsocks-libev fixes the following issues :

 - Update version to 3.3.3

 - Refine the handling of suspicious connections.

 - Fix exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the UDPRelay functionality (boo#1158251, CVE-2019-5163)

 - Fix code execution vulnerability in the ss-manager binary (boo#1158365, CVE-2019-5164)

 - Refine the handling of fragment request.

 - Fix a high CPU bug introduced in 3.3.0. (#2449)

 - Enlarge the socket buffer size to 16KB.

 - Fix the empty list bug in ss-manager.

 - Fix the IPv6 address parser.

 - Fix a bug of port parser.

 - Fix a crash with MinGW.

 - Refine SIP003 plugin interface.

 - Remove connection timeout from all clients.

 - Fix the alignment bug again.

 - Fix a bug on 32-bit arch.

 - Add TCP fast open support to ss-tunnel by @PantherJohn.

Solution

Update the affected shadowsocks-libev packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158251

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158365

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 131992

File Name: openSUSE-2019-2667.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2019

Updated: 4/4/2024

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5164

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:shadowsocks-libev, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libshadowsocks-libev2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libshadowsocks-libev2-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:shadowsocks-libev-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:shadowsocks-libev-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:shadowsocks-libev-devel

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: 12/11/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5163, CVE-2019-5164