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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : freetds (SUSE-SU-2020:1417-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 137540

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for freetds to 1.1.36 fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2019-13508: Fixed a heap overflow that could have been caused by malicious servers sending UDT types over protocol version 5.0 (bsc#1141132).

Non-security issues fixed :

Enabled Kerberos support

Version update to 1.1.36 :

 - Default TDS protocol version is now 'auto'

 - Improved UTF-8 performances

 - TDS Pool Server is enabled

 - MARS support is enabled

 - NTLMv2 is enabled

 - See NEWS and ChangeLog for a complete list of changes

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 Module for Server Applications 15-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP1-2020-1417=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141132

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13508/

http://www.nessus.org/u?a6de1cca

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 137540

File Name: suse_SU-2020-1417-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/17/2020

Updated: 12/23/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-13508

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freetds-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libct4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freetds-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libct4-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 5/26/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/31/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13508