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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : zziplib (SUSE-SU-2024:0961-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192494

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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-2024:0961-1 advisory.

 - An issue was discovered in function zzip_disk_entry_to_file_header in mmapped.c in zziplib 0.13.69, which will lead to a denial-of-service. (CVE-2020-18770)

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 libzzip-0-13 and / or zziplib-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1214577

http://www.nessus.org/u?bc8a4c6f

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-18770

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192494

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0961-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/23/2024

Updated: 3/23/2024

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: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-18770

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:suse_linux:zziplib-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzzip-0-13

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: 3/21/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-18770

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0961-1