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openSUSE Security Update : postsrsd (openSUSE-2021-646)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149629

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for postsrsd fixes the following issues :

Update to release 1.11 [boo#1180251]

 - Drop group privileges as well as user privileges

 - Fixed: The subprocess that talks to Postfix could be caused to hang with a very long email address.
 [CVE-2020-35573]

Update to release 1.6

 - Fix endianness issue with SHA-1 implementation

 - Add dual stack support

 - Make SRS separator configurable

Solution

Update the affected postsrsd packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1180251

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149629

File Name: openSUSE-2021-646.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2021

Updated: 1/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-35573

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postsrsd-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postsrsd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postsrsd, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2

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: 5/1/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35573