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openSUSE 15 Security Update : janino (SUSE-SU-2023:3385-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 180134

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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 SUSE- SU-2023:3385-1 advisory.

 - janino 3.1.9 and earlier are subject to denial of service (DOS) attacks when using the expression evaluator.guess parameter name method. If the parser runs on user-supplied input, an attacker could supply content that causes the parser to crash due to a stack overflow. (CVE-2023-33546)

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 commons-compiler, commons-compiler-jdk, janino and / or janino-javadoc packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211923

http://www.nessus.org/u?0d47d2d8

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-33546

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 180134

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3385-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/24/2023

Updated: 11/8/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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-2023-33546

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: 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: 8/23/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-33546

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3385-1