SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : libvpx (SUSE-SU-2024:2409-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202250

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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-2024:2409-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-5197: Fixed interger overflow when calling vpx_img_alloc() or vpx_img_wrap() with large parameters (bsc#1225879).
- CVE-2023-6349: Fixed heap overflow when encoding a frame that has larger dimensions than the originally configured size (bsc#1225403).
- CVE-2023-44488: Fixed heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding (bsc#1216879).

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 libvpx-devel, libvpx7, libvpx7-32bit and / or vpx-tools packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202250

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2409-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/12/2024

Updated: 8/9/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44488

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:vpx-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvpx7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvpx-devel, 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: 7/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/29/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-44488, CVE-2023-6349, CVE-2024-5197

IAVA: 2024-A-0464

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2409-1

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