Detections
Analytics

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : icu (SUSE-SU-2022:3141-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 164916

Language:

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-2022:3141-1 advisory.

 - International Components for Unicode (ICU-20850) v66.1 was discovered to contain a use after free bug in the pkg_createWithAssemblyCode function in the file tools/pkgdata/pkgdata.cpp. (CVE-2020-21913)

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 libicu60_2, libicu60_2-bedata and / or libicu60_2-ledata packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193951

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-21913

http://www.nessus.org/u?8c145df2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 164916

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3141-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/9/2022

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-2020-21913

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:libicu60_2-ledata, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libicu60_2, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libicu60_2-bedata

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: 9/7/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-21913

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3141-1