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openSUSE 15 Security Update : weechat (openSUSE-SU-2022:0083-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 159075

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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-2022:0083-1 advisory.

 - WeeChat before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted WebSocket frame that trigger an out-of-bounds read in plugins/relay/relay-websocket.c in the Relay plugin.
 (CVE-2021-40516)

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?5cf32c1b

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-40516

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190206

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 159075

File Name: openSUSE-2022-0083-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/20/2022

Updated: 3/20/2022

Supported Sensors: 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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-40516

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:weechat-ruby, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:weechat-python, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:weechat-tcl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:weechat-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:weechat-perl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:weechat-lua, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:weechat-spell, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:weechat-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:weechat

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: 3/18/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-40516