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openSUSE Security Update : mgetty (openSUSE-2020-506)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 135450

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for mgetty fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2019-1010190: Fixed a denial of service which could be caused by a local attacker in putwhitespan() (bsc#1142770).

 - Fixed a permission issue which have resulted in build failures (bsc#1168170).

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

Solution

Update the affected mgetty packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1142770

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1168170

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 135450

File Name: openSUSE-2020-506.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/14/2020

Updated: 3/19/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1010190

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:g3utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:g3utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mgetty, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mgetty-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mgetty-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:sendfax, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:sendfax-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1010190