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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : hdf5 (SUSE-SU-2023:0777-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172647

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0777-1 advisory.

 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in HDFGroup hdf5-h5dump 1.12.0 through 1.13.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via h5tools_str_sprint in /hdf5/tools/lib/h5tools_str.c. (CVE-2021-37501)

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/1207973

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-37501

http://www.nessus.org/u?ad480c79

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172647

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0777-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/17/2023

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-37501

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_cpp-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_fortran-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_fortran-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5-gnu-hpc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc-module, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_fortran-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_cpp-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpc-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5-103, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl100, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5hl_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-hpc-examples, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5-gnu-openmpi4-hpc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_cpp-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5-hpc-examples, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_fortran-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_cpp-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_fortran-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpc-module, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5hl_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5hl_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc-module, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5-gnu-mvapich2-hpc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_cpp-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_cpp-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_cpp-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_fortran-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_fortran-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_fortran-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_1_10_8-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_cpp-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_cpp_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc-module, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_fortran-gnu-mvapich2-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_cpp-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5hl_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5-gnu-openmpi3-hpc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5-gnu-mpich-hpc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5hl_fortran_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_cpp-gnu-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libhdf5_hl_fortran-gnu-openmpi4-hpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi3-hpc-module

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: 3/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-37501

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0777-1