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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libvpx (SUSE-SU-2023:3940-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 182491

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3940-1 advisory.

 - Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-5217)

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 libvpx-devel, libvpx1, libvpx1-32bit and / or vpx-tools packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1215778

http://www.nessus.org/u?5d6fd9cc

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5217

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 182491

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3940-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/4/2023

Updated: 10/4/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5217

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvpx-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvpx1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvpx1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vpx-tools

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: 10/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5217

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3940-1