openSUSE Security Update : gmime (gmime-1997)

high Nessus Plugin ID 44904

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of gmime fixes a buffer overflow in the GMIME_UUENCODE_LEN macro which allowed possible code execution while processing uuencoded data. (CVE-2010-0409: CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.8)

Solution

Update the affected gmime packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576923

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 44904

File Name: suse_11_2_gmime-100215.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/25/2010

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: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gmime, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libgmime-2_0-3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gmime-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gmime-sharp

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0409

CWE: 119