SUSE SLES15 Security Update : libcroco (SUSE-SU-2022:3493-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165670

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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-2022:3493-1 advisory.

- libcroco through 0.6.13 has excessive recursion in cr_parser_parse_any_core in cr-parser.c, leading to stack consumption. (CVE-2020-12825)

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 libcroco, libcroco-0_6-3, libcroco-0_6-3-32bit and / or libcroco-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171685

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12825

http://www.nessus.org/u?d8112041

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165670

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3493-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2022

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: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12825

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcroco-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcroco-0_6-3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcroco-0_6-3-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcroco

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: 10/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12825

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3493-1