openSUSE 15 Security Update : libhts (openSUSE-SU-2021:1177-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152738

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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-2021:1177-1 advisory.

- HTSlib 1.10 through 1.10.2 allows out-of-bounds write access in vcf_parse_format (called from vcf_parse and vcf_read). (CVE-2020-36403)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 152738

File Name: openSUSE-2021-1177.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/23/2021

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: 6.7

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-2020-36403

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bgzip, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libhts-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libhts3-64bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:htsfile, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libhts-devel-64bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tabix, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libhts3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.3

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: 8/22/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36403

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