SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : perl (SUSE-SU-2024:1762-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 197702

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1762-1 advisory.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-6913: Fixed space calculation issues in pp_pack.c (bsc#1082216)
- CVE-2018-6798: Fixed heap buffer overflow in regexec.c (bsc#1082233)

Non-security issue fixed:

- make Net::FTP work with TLS 1.3 (bsc#1213638)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 197702

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1762-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/23/2024

Updated: 5/23/2024

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6913

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-base-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-core-db_file, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 5/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6798, CVE-2018-6913

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1762-1

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