SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python39 (SUSE-SU-2024:3076-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 206433

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3076-1 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)

Non-security issues fixed:

- Fixed executable bits for /usr/bin/idle* (bsc#1227378).
- Improve python reproducible builds (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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 206433

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3076-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/3/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6923

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-5642

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_9-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-idle, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python39-dbm

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: 9/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-5642, CVE-2024-6923

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3076-1

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