openSUSE 15 Security Update : exim (openSUSE-SU-2024:0218-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 204757

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2024:0218-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-39929: Fixed incorrect parsing of multiline rfc2231 header filename (boo#1227423).

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 exim, eximon and / or eximstats-html packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 204757

File Name: openSUSE-2024-0218-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/26/2024

Updated: 7/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-39929

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:eximstats-html, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:exim, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:eximon

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: 7/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-39929

IAVA: 2024-A-0416

Detections

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