SUSE SLES12 Security Update : fetchmail (SUSE-SU-2024:3006-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 206189

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3006-1 advisory.

- Fixed regression in patch for CVE-2021-36386 (bsc#1224188)

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 fetchmail and / or fetchmailconf packages.

See Also

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-36386

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1224188

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-August/036671.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 206189

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3006-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/25/2024

Updated: 8/25/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36386

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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:fetchmail, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:fetchmailconf

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: 8/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36386

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3006-1