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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : rage-encryption (SUSE-SU-2024:3404-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 207680

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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-2024:3404-1 advisory.

 - Update to version 0.10.0
 - CVE-2024-43806: Fixed rustix::fs::Dir iterator with the linux_raw backend that can cause memory exhaustion. (bsc#1229959)

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 rage-encryption, rage-encryption-bash-completion, rage-encryption-fish-completion and / or rage- encryption-zsh-completion packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229959

http://www.nessus.org/u?eb6f4f9b

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-43806

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 207680

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3404-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2024

Updated: 9/24/2024

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-43806

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rage-encryption, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rage-encryption-bash-completion, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 9/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/26/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-43806

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3404-1