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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : unzip (SUSE-SU-2020:1796-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 138308

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for unzip fixes the following issues :

CVE-2018-18384: Fixed a buffer overflow when listing files (bsc#1110194)

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-SP5-2020-1796=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2020-1796=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110194

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18384/

http://www.nessus.org/u?56456b79

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 138308

File Name: suse_SU-2020-1796-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/9/2020

Updated: 3/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18384

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:unzip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:unzip-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:unzip-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18384