SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libarchive (SUSE-SU-2015:0667-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83710

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

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)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-155=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-155=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-155=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800024

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=920870

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0211/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2304/

http://www.nessus.org/u?aadbb1a7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83710

File Name: suse_SU-2015-0667-1.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libarchive-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libarchive13, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libarchive13-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/30/2013

Reference Information

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

BID: 58926, 73137