SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : netatalk (SUSE-SU-2024:2301-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 201904

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2301-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-38439: Fixed a heap buffer overflow because of setting ibuf[PASSWDLEN] to \0 in FPLoginExt in login in etc/uams/uams_pam.c (bsc#1226430).
- CVE-2024-38440: Fixed a heap buffer overflow because of incorrectly using FPLoginExt in BN_bin2bn in etc/uams/uams_dhx_pam.c (bsc#1226429).
- CVE-2024-38441: Fixed a heap buffer overflow because of setting ibuf[len] to \0 in FPMapName in afp_mapname in etc/afp/directory.c (bsc#1226431).

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 libatalk0, netatalk and / or netatalk-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 201904

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2301-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/5/2024

Updated: 8/8/2024

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-38439

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:netatalk-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:netatalk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libatalk0

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: 7/4/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-38439, CVE-2024-38440, CVE-2024-38441

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2301-1

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