openSUSE 15 Security Update : atheme (openSUSE-SU-2022:10018-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 162476

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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-2022:10018-1 advisory.

- Atheme IRC Services before 7.2.12, when used in conjunction with InspIRCd, allows authentication bypass by ending an IRC handshake at a certain point during a challenge-response login sequence. (CVE-2022-24976)

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 atheme, atheme-devel and / or libathemecore1 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174075

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1195989

http://www.nessus.org/u?c66b7e31

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-24976

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 162476

File Name: openSUSE-2022-10018-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/22/2022

Updated: 10/19/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24976

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:atheme-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:atheme, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libathemecore1

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: 6/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24976