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openSUSE 15 Security Update : exim (openSUSE-SU-2022:10168-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 166754

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:10168-1 advisory.

 - A vulnerability was found in Exim and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Regex Handler. The manipulation leads to use after free. The name of the patch is 4e9ed49f8f12eb331b29bd5b6dc3693c520fddc2. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-211073 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3559)

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 exim, eximon and / or eximstats-html packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1204427

http://www.nessus.org/u?c54a9242

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3559

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166754

File Name: openSUSE-2022-10168-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/1/2022

Updated: 10/6/2023

Supported Sensors: 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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:opensuse:eximstats-html, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.4, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:exim, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:eximon

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: 10/30/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3559

IAVA: 2022-A-0338-S