SUSE SLES15 Security Update : protobuf-c (SUSE-SU-2023:1979-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 174779

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:1979-1 advisory.

- protobuf-c before 1.4.1 has an unsigned integer overflow in parse_required_member. (CVE-2022-48468)

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 libprotobuf-c-devel and / or libprotobuf-c1 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 174779

File Name: suse_SU-2023-1979-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/26/2023

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: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-48468

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:libprotobuf-c-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libprotobuf-c1, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 4/25/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48468

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:1979-1

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