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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : protobuf (SUSE-SU-2022:1040-3)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 165748

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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-2022:1040-3 advisory.

 - Nullptr dereference when a null char is present in a proto symbol. The symbol is parsed incorrectly, leading to an unchecked call into the proto file's name during generation of the resulting error message.
 Since the symbol is incorrectly parsed, the file is nullptr. We recommend upgrading to version 3.15.0 or greater. (CVE-2021-22570)

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 libprotobuf-lite20, libprotobuf20, libprotoc20 and / or protobuf-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1195258

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-22570

http://www.nessus.org/u?6f19fba2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 165748

File Name: suse_SU-2022-1040-3.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2022

Updated: 7/13/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22570

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libprotobuf20, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:protobuf-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libprotobuf-lite20, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libprotoc20, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22570

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:1040-3