openSUSE 15 Security Update : aspell (openSUSE-SU-2021:1181-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152755

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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-2021:1181-1 advisory.

- objstack in GNU Aspell 0.60.8 has a heap-based buffer overflow in acommon::ObjStack::dup_top (called from acommon::StringMap::add and acommon::Config::lookup_list). (CVE-2019-25051)

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: 152755

File Name: openSUSE-2021-1181.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/24/2021

Updated: 8/24/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-25051

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libaspell15-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpspell15, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpspell15-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:aspell-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:aspell-ispell, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:aspell-spell, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libaspell15, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:aspell

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-25051

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