SUSE SLES12 Security Update : perl-PlRPC (SUSE-SU-2020:2238-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 139657

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for perl-PlRPC fixes the following issues :

Security notice: [bsc#858243, CVE-2013-7284]

- Document security vulnerability on Storable and reply attack

Add perl-PlRPC-CVE-2013-7284.patch

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-SP5-2020-2238=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 139657

File Name: suse_SU-2020-2238-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/18/2020

Updated: 9/24/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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-2013-7284

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-plrpc, 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: 8/14/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-7284

BID: 66491

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