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openSUSE 15 Security Update : c-ares (openSUSE-SU-2021:1168-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 152694

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:1168-1 advisory.

 - To fix this vulnerability, update the affected packages: c-ares (CVE-2021-3672)

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 c-ares-devel, c-ares-utils, libcares2 and / or libcares2-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188881

http://www.nessus.org/u?cc9eda22

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3672

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 152694

File Name: openSUSE-2021-1168.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/20/2021

Updated: 12/4/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3672

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcares2-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:c-ares-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:c-ares-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcares2

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: 8/19/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3672