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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : gcc48 (SUSE-SU-2022:2015-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 161970

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2015-1 advisory.

 - An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. simple_object_elf_match in simple-object-elf.c does not check for a zero shstrndx value, leading to an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow. (CVE-2019-14250)

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/1142649

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1161913

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177947

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178675

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185395

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14250

http://www.nessus.org/u?7f8d7a98

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 161970

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2015-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/9/2022

Updated: 7/14/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14250

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgcj48-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libasan0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc48-locale, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libstdc%2b%2b48-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgcj48-jar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libasan0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc48-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libstdc%2b%2b48-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgcj48, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc48-gij-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc48-info, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cpp48, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc48-gij, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc48, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgcj48-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc48-obj-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libada48, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc48-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc48-objc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc48-java, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgcj_bc1, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc48-fortran, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libffi48-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc48-objc-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc48-ada

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14250

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2015-1