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openSUSE 15 Security Update : openexr (openSUSE-SU-2021:2158-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 151740

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:2158-1 advisory.

 - There's a flaw in OpenEXR's ImfDeepScanLineInputFile functionality in versions prior to 3.0.5. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to an application linked with OpenEXR could cause an out-of-bounds read. The greatest risk from this flaw is to application availability. (CVE-2021-3598)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187310

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187395

http://www.nessus.org/u?6e995c2c

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3598

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3605

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 151740

File Name: openSUSE-2021-2158.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2021

Updated: 12/8/2023

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3605

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:libilmimf-2_2-23, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libilmimfutil-2_2-23, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libilmimf-2_2-23-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openexr-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libilmimfutil-2_2-23-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openexr

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: 7/11/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3598, CVE-2021-3605