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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : giflib (SUSE-SU-2024:2607-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 204792

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-2024:2607-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2022-28506: Fixed heap buffer overflow in function DumpScreen2RGB() (bsc#1198880)
 - CVE-2023-39742: Fixed segmentation fault via the component getarg.c (bsc#1214678)

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 giflib-devel, giflib-progs, libgif6 and / or libgif6-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1198880

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1214678

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-July/036120.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-28506

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-39742

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 204792

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2607-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/26/2024

Updated: 7/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-28506

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:giflib-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgif6-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgif6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:giflib-progs

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: 4/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-28506, CVE-2023-39742

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2607-1