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openSUSE Security Update : apt-cacher-ng (openSUSE-2020-124)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 133345

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for apt-cacher-ng fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2019-18899: Fixed a symlink attack which could allow to overwrite arbitrary data (boo#1157703).

 - CVE-2020-5202: Fixed an information leak if a local user won a race condition to listen to localhost:3142 (boo#1157706).

Solution

Update the affected apt-cacher-ng packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1157703

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1157706

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 133345

File Name: openSUSE-2020-124.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/30/2020

Updated: 3/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-5202

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apt-cacher-ng, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apt-cacher-ng-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apt-cacher-ng-debuginfo

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: 1/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18899, CVE-2020-5202