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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : icu (SUSE-SU-2022:3142-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 164921

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3142-1 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 libicu-devel, libicu-suse65_1, libicu65_1-bedata and / or libicu65_1-ledata packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193951

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?fa5a19ca

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 164921

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3142-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

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:libicu-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libicu65_1-ledata, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libicu65_1-bedata, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libicu-suse65_1

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-2022:3142-1