openSUSE Security Update : nmap (openSUSE-SU-2013:1579-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 75175

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

nmap was updated to fix bnc#844953/CVE-2013-4885: There was a vulnerability in one of our 437 NSE scripts. If you ran the (fortunately non-default) http-domino-enum-passwords script with the (fortunately also non-default) domino-enum-passwords.idpath parameter against a malicious server, it could cause an arbitrarily named file to to be written to the client system.

Solution

Update the affected nmap packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 75175

File Name: openSUSE-2013-790.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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:opensuse:nmap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nmap, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nping, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nmap-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ndiff, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ncat, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:zenmap

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4885

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