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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : SDL2 (SUSE-SU-2023:0069-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 169928

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0069-1 advisory.

 - A potential memory leak issue was discovered in SDL2 in GLES_CreateTexture() function in SDL_render_gles.c. The vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack. The vulnerability affects SDL2 v2.0.4 and above. SDL-1.x are not affected. (CVE-2022-4743)

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 libSDL2-2_0-0, libSDL2-2_0-0-32bit, libSDL2-devel and / or libSDL2-devel-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1206727

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4743

http://www.nessus.org/u?5138d119

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 169928

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0069-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/12/2023

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: 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-2022-4743

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:suse_linux:libsdl2-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsdl2-2_0-0

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: 1/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-4743

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0069-1