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openSUSE 15 Security Update : wdiff (openSUSE-SU-2022:10031-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 162617

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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-2022:10031-1 advisory.

 - The make distcheck rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2012-3386)

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 wdiff and / or wdiff-lang packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b70bc59e

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3386

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 162617

File Name: openSUSE-2022-10031-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/30/2022

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3386

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wdiff, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.4, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:wdiff-lang

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: 6/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3386