SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ncurses (SUSE-SU-2024:1132-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193047

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1132-1 advisory.

- ncurses 6.4-20230610 has a NULL pointer dereference in tgetstr in tinfo/lib_termcap.c. (CVE-2023-45918)

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 193047

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1132-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/9/2024

Updated: 11/1/2024

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: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45918

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses6-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:terminfo-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tack, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:terminfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45918

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1132-1

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