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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : grilo (SUSE-SU-2021:3295-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 153920

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3295-1 advisory.

 - In GNOME grilo though 0.3.13, grl-net-wc.c does not enable TLS certificate verification on the SoupSessionAsync objects it creates, leaving users vulnerable to network MITM attacks. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2016-20011. (CVE-2021-39365)

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/1189839

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39365

http://www.nessus.org/u?ab74c5e7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 153920

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3295-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2021

Updated: 7/13/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-39365

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgrilo-0_3-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-grlnet-0_3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-grl-0_3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgrlpls-0_3-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgrlnet-0_3-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-grlpls-0_3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grilo-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 10/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-39365

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3295-1