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openSUSE Security Update : uvcvideo-kmp-bigsmp (uvcvideo-kmp-bigsmp-148)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 40145

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The kernel driver uvcvideo was vulnerable to a buffer overflow in format descriptor parsing. (CVE-2008-3496)

Solution

Update the affected uvcvideo-kmp-bigsmp packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415702

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 40145

File Name: suse_11_0_uvcvideo-kmp-bigsmp-080818.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:uvcvideo-kmp-debug, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:uvcvideo-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:uvcvideo-kmp-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:uvcvideo-kmp-xen, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3496

CWE: 119