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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : opencc (SUSE-SU-2022:4288-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 168306

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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-2022:4288-1 advisory.

 - Open Chinese Convert (OpenCC) 1.0.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) because BinaryDict::NewFromFile in BinaryDict.cpp may have out-of-bounds keyOffset and valueOffset values via a crafted .ocd file. (CVE-2018-16982)

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 libopencc2, opencc, opencc-data and / or opencc-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1108310

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16982

http://www.nessus.org/u?273d0e80

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 168306

File Name: suse_SU-2022-4288-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/30/2022

Updated: 7/14/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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-2018-16982

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:opencc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopencc2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opencc-data, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opencc-devel

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: 11/29/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16982

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:4288-1