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openSUSE 15 Security Update : htmldoc (openSUSE-SU-2024:0304-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 207336

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2024:0304-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-45508: Fixed an out-of-bounds write in parse_paragraph in ps-pdf.cxx because of an attempt to strip leading whitespace from a whitespace-only node [boo#1230022].

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 htmldoc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1230022

http://www.nessus.org/u?4b7a0447

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45508

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 207336

File Name: openSUSE-2024-0304-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2024

Updated: 9/17/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45508

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:htmldoc, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.5

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: 9/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45508