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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : file-roller (SUSE-SU-2020:1505-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 137551

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for file-roller fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2020-11736: Fixed a directory traversal vulnerability due to improper checking whether a file's parent is an external symlink (bsc#1169428).

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-SP5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-1505=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2020-1505=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169428

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-11736/

http://www.nessus.org/u?97f37e6f

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 137551

File Name: suse_SU-2020-1505-1.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: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11736

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.9

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:file-roller, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:file-roller-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:file-roller-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nautilus-file-roller, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nautilus-file-roller-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 5/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11736