SUSE SLES12 Security Update : u-boot (SUSE-SU-2022:2666-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 163877

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2666-1 advisory.

- In Das U-Boot through 2022.07-rc5, an integer signedness error and resultant stack-based buffer overflow in the i2c md command enables the corruption of the return address pointer of the do_i2c_md function.
(CVE-2022-34835)

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 u-boot-rpi3 and / or u-boot-tools packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 163877

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2666-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/5/2022

Updated: 7/14/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-34835

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:suse_linux:u-boot-rpi3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:u-boot-tools, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 8/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-34835

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2666-1

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