SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : glib2 (SUSE-SU-2024:4254-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 212300

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-2024:4254-1 advisory.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2024-52533: Fix a single byte buffer overflow in set_connect_msg() (bsc#1233282).

Non-security issue fixed:

- Fix error when uninstalling packages (bsc#1231463).

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/1233282

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-52533

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1231463

http://www.nessus.org/u?bba6bbe3

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 212300

File Name: suse_SU-2024-4254-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2024

Updated: 12/11/2024

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-52533

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libglib-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgmodule-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgobject-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgthread-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libglib-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgmodule-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgobject-2_0-0-32bit

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: 12/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52533

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:4254-1