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SuSE 11 / 11.1 Security Update : kdenetwork (SAT Patch Numbers 3563 / 3564)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51199

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Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update of kdenetwork fixes several bugs, the security related issues are :

 - The 'name' attribute of the 'file' element of metalink files is not properly sanitised this can be exploited to download files to arbitrary directories. (CVE-2010-1000:
 CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N):
 CWE-22)

 - The included libgadu version allowed remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a buffer over-read. (CVE-2008-4776: CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P): CWE-119)

Non-security issues :

 - kopete: ICQ login broken; login server changed.
 (bnc#653852)

 - kopete cant connect to yahoo. (bnc#516347)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 3563 / 3564 as appropriate.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516347

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525528

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604709

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653852

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4776.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1000.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51199

File Name: suse_11_kde4-kdnssd-101119.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/16/2010

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kde4-kget, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kde4-knewsticker, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kde4-kopete, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kde4-kppp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kde4-krdc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kde4-krfb, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kdenetwork4-filesharing, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kget, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kopete, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kppp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:krdc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:krfb, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/19/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4776, CVE-2010-1000

CWE: 119