SUSE SLES12 Security Update : udisks2 (SUSE-SU-2022:3160-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 164926

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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-2022:3160-1 advisory.

- A vulnerability found in udisks2. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted image file/USB leading to kernel panic. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
(CVE-2021-3802)

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 libudisks2-0, udisks2, udisks2-devel and / or udisks2-lang packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1098797

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190606

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3802

http://www.nessus.org/u?f0cbd5a7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 164926

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3160-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/9/2022

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3802

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.2

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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:libudisks2-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udisks2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udisks2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:udisks2-lang, 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: 9/7/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3802

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3160-1