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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : cairo (SUSE-SU-2021:3502-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 154355

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3502-1 advisory.

 - An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an infinite loop in the function _arc_error_normalized in the file cairo-arc.c, related to _arc_max_angle_for_tolerance_normalized. (CVE-2019-6462)

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/1122321

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6462

http://www.nessus.org/u?f73da70b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 154355

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3502-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/23/2021

Updated: 7/13/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6462

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcairo2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcairo2-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcairo-gobject2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cairo-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcairo-gobject2-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcairo-script-interpreter2

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: 10/22/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6462

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3502-1