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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : python311 (SUSE-SU-2024:2982-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 205996

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2982-1 advisory.

 Security issues fixed:

 - CVE-2024-6923: Fixed email header injection due to unquoted newlines (bsc#1228780)
 - CVE-2024-5642: Removed support for anything but OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer (bsc#1227233)
 - CVE-2024-4032: Fixed incorrect IPv4 and IPv6 private ranges (bsc#1226448)

 Non-security issues fixed:

 - Fixed executable bits for /usr/bin/idle* (bsc#1227378).
 - Improve python reproducible builds (bsc#1227999)
 - Make pip and modern tools install directly in /usr/local when used by the user (bsc#1225660)
 - %{profileopt} variable is set according to the variable %{do_profiling} (bsc#1227999)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1225660

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1226447

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1226448

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1227378

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1227999

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228780

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-August/036645.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-27043

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0397

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4032

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6923

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 205996

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2982-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/21/2024

Updated: 11/15/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-27043

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-idle, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_11-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-dbm

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: 8/20/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-27043, CVE-2024-0397, CVE-2024-4032, CVE-2024-6923

IAVA: 2023-A-0442-S

IAVB: 2024-B-0121-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2982-1