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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : protobuf (SUSE-SU-2024:3746-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 209544

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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 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3746-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-7254: Fixed stack overflow vulnerability in Protocol Buffer (bsc#1230778)

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/1230778

http://www.nessus.org/u?da673087

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7254

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 209544

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3746-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/23/2024

Updated: 10/23/2024

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-7254

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libprotoc25_1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:protobuf-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libprotobuf25_1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libprotobuf-lite25_1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-protobuf, 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: 10/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-7254

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3746-1