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openSUSE 15 Security Update : iniparser (openSUSE-SU-2023:0183-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 178403

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2023:0183-1 advisory.

 - iniparser v4.1 is vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in function iniparser_getlongint which misses check NULL for function iniparser_getstring's return. (CVE-2023-33461)

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 libiniparser-devel, libiniparser1, libiniparser1-32bit and / or libiniparser1-64bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211889

http://www.nessus.org/u?87a684ab

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-33461

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 178403

File Name: openSUSE-2023-0183-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2023

Updated: 7/18/2023

Supported Sensors: 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: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-33461

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:opensuse:libiniparser1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libiniparser1-64bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libiniparser-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.4, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libiniparser1-32bit

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: 7/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-33461