SuSE 11.1 Security Update : moonlight (SAT Patch Number 4246)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53314

Synopsis

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

Description

Moonlight was prone to several security problems :

- modification of read-only values via RuntimeHelpers.InitializeArray. (CVE-2011-0989)

- buffer overflow due to race condition in in Array.FastCopy. (CVE-2011-0990)

- use-after-free due to DynamicMethod resurrection.
(CVE-2011-0991)

- information leak due to improper thread finalization These issues have been fixed. (CVE-2011-0992)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 4246.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667077

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0989.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0990.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0991.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0992.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53314

File Name: suse_11_libmoon-devel-110329.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/7/2011

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:moonlight-plugin, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:moonlight-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libmoon0

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0989, CVE-2011-0990, CVE-2011-0991, CVE-2011-0992