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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : librsvg (SUSE-SU-2023:3208-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 179430

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3208-1 advisory.

 - A directory traversal problem in the URL decoder of librsvg before 2.56.3 could be used by local or remote attackers to disclose files (on the local filesystem outside of the expected area), as demonstrated by href=.?../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd in an xi:include element. (CVE-2023-38633)

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 gdk-pixbuf-loader-rsvg, librsvg-2-2, librsvg-devel and / or typelib-1_0-Rsvg-2_0 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1213502

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2023-August/030820.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38633

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 179430

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3208-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/8/2023

Updated: 11/8/2023

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38633

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:librsvg-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gdk-pixbuf-loader-rsvg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-rsvg-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:librsvg-2-2, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 8/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38633

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3208-1