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openSUSE Security Update : glib2 (glib2-815)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39971

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Large strings could lead to a heap overflow in the base64 encoding and decoding functions. Attackers could potentially exploit that to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2008-4316).

Solution

Update the affected glib2 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449927

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39971

File Name: suse_11_0_glib2-090422.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libglib-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-branding-upstream, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgobject-2_0-0-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgmodule-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgthread-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgio-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:glib2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgio-fam, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgobject-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libglib-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgio-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgmodule-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgthread-2_0-0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4316

CWE: 189