SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python311 (SUSE-SU-2024:3200-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 207051

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3200-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-6923: Fixed email header injection due to unquoted newlines (bsc#1228780)

Other fixes:
- %{profileopt} variable is set according to the variable %{do_profiling} (bsc#1227999)
- Stop using %%defattr, it seems to be breaking proper executable attributes on /usr/bin/ scripts (bsc#1227378)
- Make pip and modern tools install directly in /usr/local when used by the user (bsc#1225660)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1225660

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1227378

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1227999

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228780

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?5cee118d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 207051

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3200-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/12/2024

Updated: 9/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

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: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 9/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6923

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3200-1