SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : httpcomponents-client, httpcomponents-core (SUSE-SU-2024:4036-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 212569

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-2024:4036-1 advisory.

httpcomponents-client:
- Update to version 4.5.14
* HTTPCLIENT-2206: Corrected resource de-allocation by fluent response objects.
* HTTPCLIENT-2174: URIBuilder to return a new empty list instead of unmodifiable Collections#emptyList.
* Don't retry requests in case of NoRouteToHostException.
* HTTPCLIENT-2144: RequestBuilder fails to correctly copy charset of requests with form url-encoded body.
* PR #269: 4.5.x use array fill and more.
+ Use Arrays.fill().
+ Remove redundant modifiers.
+ Use Collections.addAll() and Collection.addAll() APIs instead of loops.
+ Remove redundant returns.
+ No need to explicitly declare an array when calling a vararg method.
+ Remote extra semicolons (;).
+ Use a 'L' instead of 'l' to make long literals more readable.
* PublicSuffixListParser.parseByType(Reader) allocates but does not use a 256 char StringBuilder.
* Incorrect handling of malformed authority component by URIUtils#extractHost (bsc#1177488, CVE-2020-13956).
* Avoid updating Content-Length header in a 304 response.
* Bug fix: BasicExpiresHandler is annotated as immutable but is not (#239)
* HTTPCLIENT-2076: Fixed NPE in LaxExpiresHandler.

httpcomponents-core:
- Upgraded to version 4.4.14
* PR #231: 4.4.x Use better map apis and more.
+ Remove redundant modifiers.
+ Use Collections.addAll() API instead of loops.
+ Remove redundant returns.
+ No need to explicitly declare an array when calling a vararg method.
+ Remote extra semicolons (;).
* Bug fix: Non-blocking TLSv1.3 connections can end up in an infinite event spin when closed concurrently by the local and the remote endpoints.
* HTTPCORE-647: Non-blocking connection terminated due to 'java.io.IOException: Broken pipe' can enter an infinite loop flushing buffered output data.
* PR #201, HTTPCORE-634: Fix race condition in AbstractConnPool that can cause internal state corruption when persistent connections are manually removed from the pool.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 212569

File Name: suse_SU-2024-4036-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/12/2024

Updated: 12/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13956

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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:httpcomponents-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:httpcomponents-core

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: 11/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13956

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:4036-1

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