Detections
Analytics

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : python3 (SUSE-SU-2024:3879-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210114

Language:

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-2024:3879-1 advisory.

 Security fixes:

 - CVE-2024-9287: properly quote path names provided when creating a virtual environment (bsc#1232241)

 Other fixes:

 - Drop .pyc files from docdir for reproducible builds (bsc#1230906)

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/1230906

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232241

http://www.nessus.org/u?73fc0726

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9287

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210114

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3879-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/2/2024

Updated: 11/2/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-dbm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-idle, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_6m1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3, 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: 11/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-9287

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3879-1