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openSUSE Security Update : balsa (openSUSE-2020-1207)

high Nessus Plugin ID 139650

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for balsa fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2020-16118: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference (boo#1174711).

Solution

Update the affected balsa packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174711

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 139650

File Name: openSUSE-2020-1207.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/18/2020

Updated: 2/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-16118

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:opensuse:balsa-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:balsa-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:balsa, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:balsa-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-16118