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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : freetype2 (SUSE-SU-2020:2995-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 143803

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for freetype2 fixes the following issues :

CVE-2020-15999: fixed a heap buffer overflow found in the handling of embedded PNG bitmaps (bsc#1177914).

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 for SAP 15 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2020-2995=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2020-2995=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP2-2020-2995=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2020-2995=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2020-2995=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2020-2995=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2020-2995=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177914

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15999/

http://www.nessus.org/u?778f52ba

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 143803

File Name: suse_SU-2020-2995-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/9/2020

Updated: 2/6/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 10.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15999

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 9.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreetype6-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ftdump, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freetype2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreetype6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freetype2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreetype6-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 10/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 11/17/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15999