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openSUSE Security Update : less (openSUSE-2015-260)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 82245

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

less was updated to fix one minor security issue :

Malformed UTF-8 data could have caused an out of bounds read in the UTF-8 decoding routines, causing an invalid read access. (bnc#921719) (CVE-2014-9488)

Solution

Update the affected less packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921719

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 82245

File Name: openSUSE-2015-260.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2015

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: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:less-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:less, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:less-debugsource

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9488