SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libgsf (SUSE-SU-2024:3770-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 209948

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3770-1 advisory.

- CVE-2016-9888: Fixed null pointer dereference with corrupted tar files (bsc#1014609)
- CVE-2024-36474: Fixed out-of-bounds index when processing a directory via an integer overflow in the compound document binary file format parser (bsc#1231282)
- CVE-2024-42415: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow when processing the sector allocation table via an integer overflow in the compound document binary file format parser (bsc#1231283)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libgsf-1-114, libgsf-1-114-32bit and / or libgsf-lang packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 209948

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3770-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/31/2024

Updated: 10/31/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9888

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-42415

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgsf-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgsf-1-114-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgsf-1-114

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: 10/29/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9888, CVE-2024-36474, CVE-2024-42415

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3770-1

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