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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : devscripts (SUSE-SU-2024:2621-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 204899

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2621-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2014-1833: Fixed symlink directory traversal in uupdate (bsc#861514)

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 checkbashisms package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/861514

http://www.nessus.org/u?6c981472

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1833

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 204899

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2621-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/31/2024

Updated: 7/31/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-1833

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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:checkbashisms

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: 7/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1833

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2621-1