SUSE SLES12 Security Update : python36 (SUSE-SU-2024:1847-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 198122

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1847-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-52425: Fixed backport so it uses features sniffing, not just comparing version number (bsc#1219559).
- CVE-2024-0450: Fixed detecting the vulnerability of 'quoted-overlap' zipbomb (bsc#1221854).
- CVE-2023-6597: Fixed symlink bug in cleanup of tempfile.TemporaryDirectory (bsc#1219666).
- CVE-2022-48566: Fixed compare_digest constant-time (bsc#1214691).

Bug fixes:

- Fixed syslog making default 'ident from sys.argv[0] (bsc#1222109).

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: Medium

ID: 198122

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1847-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/30/2024

Updated: 5/30/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-48566

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_6m1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_6m1_0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python36-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python36, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python36-base

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: 5/29/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48566, CVE-2023-52425, CVE-2023-6597, CVE-2024-0450

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1847-1

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