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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : texlive (SUSE-SU-2024:1296-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193354

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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-2024:1296-1 advisory.

 - Tex Live 944e257 has a NULL pointer dereference in texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writet1.c. NOTE: this is disputed because it should be categorized as a usability problem. (CVE-2023-46048)

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1222126

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-April/034982.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-46048

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 193354

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1296-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/16/2024

Updated: 8/20/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2023-46048

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-splitindex-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-mptopdf-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-lacheck-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-kpathsea-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-mfware-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-texconfig-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-lua2dox-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-tetex-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-gsftopk-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-vlna-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-makeindex-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-pdftex-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-seetexk-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-cweb-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-dvisvgm-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-context-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-dviljk-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-metapost-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-dvipng-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-checkcites-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-ptexenc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-xetex-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-dvidvi-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-bibtex-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libptexenc1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-kpathsea-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-web-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-tex4ht-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libkpathsea6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-tex-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-xmltex-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-luatex-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-bin-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-luaotfload-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-pstools-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-dviasm-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-dvips-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-metafont-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-dvipdfmx-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-thumbpdf-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-latex-bin-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-xdvi-bin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:texlive-jadetex-bin

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: 4/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46048

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1296-1