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openSUSE Security Update : libarchive (openSUSE-2015-248)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82012

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

libarchive was updated to fix a directory traversal in the bsdcpio tool, which allowed attackers supplying crafted archives to overwrite files. (CVE-2015-2304)

Also, a integer overflow was fixed that could also overflow buffers.
(CVE-2013-0211)

Solution

Update the affected libarchive packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=800024

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920870

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82012

File Name: openSUSE-2015-248.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/24/2015

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: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libarchive13-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libarchive13-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libarchive-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libarchive-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bsdtar, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bsdtar-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libarchive13, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libarchive13-debuginfo-32bit

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0211, CVE-2015-2304