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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : python-pyxdg (SUSE-SU-2022:2997-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164663

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2997-1 advisory.

 - A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in xdg/Menu.py before an eval call. (CVE-2019-12761)

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 python2-pyxdg and / or python3-pyxdg packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1137627

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12761

http://www.nessus.org/u?cebdfc12

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164663

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2997-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/3/2022

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12761

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-pyxdg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python2-pyxdg

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: 9/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12761

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2997-1