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openSUSE Security Update : silc-toolkit (silc-toolkit-1280)

high Nessus Plugin ID 41003

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of slic-toolkit fixes stack-based overflow while encoding a ASN.1 OID (CVE-2008-7159) and several format string bugs (CVE-2009-3051, CVE-2008-7160). The probability to exploit this issues to execute arbitrary code is high.

Solution

Update the affected silc-toolkit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=535841

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 41003

File Name: suse_11_0_silc-toolkit-090908.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2009

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:silc-toolkit-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:silc-toolkit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/8/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-7159, CVE-2008-7160, CVE-2009-3051

CWE: 134