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openSUSE Security Update : brotli (openSUSE-2020-1578)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141158

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for brotli fixes the following issues :

brotli was updated to 1.0.9 :

 - CVE-2020-8927: Fix integer overflow when input chunk is longer than 2GiB [boo#1175825]

 - `brotli -v` now reports raw / compressed size

 - decoder: minor speed / memory usage improvements

 - encoder: fix rare access to uninitialized data in ring-buffer

Solution

Update the affected brotli packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1175825

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141158

File Name: openSUSE-2020-1578.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2020

Updated: 2/16/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8927

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:opensuse:libbrotlienc1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbrotlicommon1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbrotlidec1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbrotlidec1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbrotlidec1-32bit-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbrotlicommon1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:brotli-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:brotli-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbrotlicommon1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbrotlicommon1-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbrotlidec1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbrotlienc1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbrotlienc1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbrotlienc1-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbrotli-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:brotli

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8927