openSUSE 15 Security Update : lapack (openSUSE-SU-2022:0915-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 159124

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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-2022:0915-1 advisory.

- An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the CLARRV, DLARRV, SLARRV, and ZLARRV functions in lapack through version 3.10.0, as also used in OpenBLAS before version 0.3.18. Specially crafted inputs passed to these functions could cause an application using lapack to crash or possibly disclose portions of its memory.
(CVE-2021-4048)

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: Critical

ID: 159124

File Name: openSUSE-2022-0915-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/22/2022

Updated: 3/22/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4048

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:blas-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:liblapacke3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lapack-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libblas3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:blas-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lapack-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:blas-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:liblapack3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lapacke-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libblas3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lapack-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:liblapack3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:liblapacke3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lapack-man, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lapacke-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:blas-man, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lapacke-devel-static

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: 3/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-4048

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