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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : bpftool (SUSE-SU-2024:4157-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 212574

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 a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:4157-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-49987: Fixed undefined behavior in qsort(NULL, 0, ...) (bsc#1232258)

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 bpftool package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232258

http://www.nessus.org/u?29602f07

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49987

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 212574

File Name: suse_SU-2024-4157-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2024

Updated: 12/12/2024

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-49987

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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: 12/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-49987

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:4157-1