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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : gnome-shell (SUSE-SU-2024:2589-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 203008

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2589-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-36472: Fixed portal helper automatically launched without user confirmation (bsc#1225567)

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

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/1225567

http://www.nessus.org/u?8cc71c6a

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-36472

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 203008

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2589-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2024

Updated: 11/20/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-36472

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnome-shell, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnome-shell-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnome-shell-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnome-shell-browser-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnome-shell-calendar

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: 7/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-36472

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2589-1