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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : glib2 (SUSE-SU-2022:1758-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 168342

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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-2022:1758-2 advisory.

 - An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.8. When g_file_replace() is used with G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION to replace a path that is a dangling symlink, it incorrectly also creates the target of the symlink as an empty file, which could conceivably have security relevance if the symlink is attacker-controlled. (If the path is a symlink to a file that already exists, then the contents of that file correctly remain unchanged.) (CVE-2021-28153)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183533

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28153

http://www.nessus.org/u?fbdf6e8d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 168342

File Name: suse_SU-2022-1758-2.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/2/2022

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: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28153

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgmodule-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libglib-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgmodule-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgobject-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgthread-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgthread-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libglib-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgobject-2_0-0-32bit

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: 11/30/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28153

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:1758-2