SUSE SLES12 Security Update : patch (SUSE-SU-2024:2704-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 204979

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-2024:2704-1 advisory.

- CVE-2019-20633: Fixed double-free/OOB read in pch.c (bsc#1167721)

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 patch package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1167721

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-August/036261.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-20633

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 204979

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2704-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2024

Updated: 8/3/2024

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:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-20633

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:N/I:N/A:H

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:patch

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: 8/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-20633

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2704-1