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openSUSE Security Update : hylafax+ (openSUSE-2020-958)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 138739

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for hylafax+ fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

 - CVE-2020-8024 boo#1172731

hylafax+ was updated to version 7.0.2 :

 - change FIXEDWIDTH default to better accommodate auto-rotation (13 Dec 2019)

 - prevent SSL_accept() from blocking (5 Dec 2019)

 - support libtiff v4.1 (5 Dec 2019)

 - fix ignoremodembusy feature broken by ModemGroup limits feature (16 Nov 2019)

Version 7.0.1 :

 - create a client timeout setting and change the default from 60 to 3600 seconds (26 Sep 2019)

 - extend timeout for receiving ECM frames (21 Aug 2019)

 - fix timeout in Class 1 frame reception (5 Aug 2019)

 - improve Class 1 protocol handling when MaxRecvPages exceeded (31 Jul 2019)

 - fix ModemGroup limit default (11 Jul 2019)

 - fix recovery for SSL Fax write failures (6 Jun 2019)

Version 7.0.0 :

 - add LDAP features for compatibility with ActiveDirectory (25 Mar-1 Apr 2019)

 - fix recovery after SSL Fax 'accept failure' (18 Mar 2019)

 - add TextFormat overstrike option and disable by default (6 Feb 2019)

 - fix the page size of cover sheets returned via notify (8 Jan 2019)

 - fix or silence numerous compiler warnings (19, 22, 28 Dec 2018)

 - fix pagehandling updating after a proxy has been used (7-8 Dec 2018)

 - add faxmail stderr output of RFC2047 decoding results (5 Dec 2018)

 - fix faxmail handling of headers encoded with UTF-8 (4 Dec 2018)

 - fix faxmail handling of base64-encoded text parts (4 Dec 2018)

 - add SSL Fax support (9-26, 29 Nov; 11, 18, 25 Dec 2018;
 2, 7, 23 Jan 2019)

Solution

Update the affected hylafax+ packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172731

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 138739

File Name: openSUSE-2020-958.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2020

Updated: 2/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8024

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfaxutil7_0_2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfaxutil7_0_2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:hylafax%2b-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:hylafax%2b, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:hylafax%2b-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:hylafax%2b-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:hylafax%2b-client

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: 7/14/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8024