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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : OpenIPMI (SUSE-SU-2024:3505-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 208021

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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-2024:3505-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-42934: crash or message authentication bypass on IPMI simulator due to missing bounds check.
 (bsc#1229910)

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 OpenIPMI, OpenIPMI-devel, OpenIPMI-python3 and / or libOpenIPMI0 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229910

http://www.nessus.org/u?1317867f

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-42934

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 208021

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3505-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/2/2024

Updated: 10/2/2024

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-42934

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/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:openipmi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openipmi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenipmi0

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: 10/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-42934

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3505-1