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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libzip (SUSE-SU-2015:0668-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83711

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Synopsis

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

Description

Libzip was updated to fix one security issue.

A zip file with an unusually large number of entries could have caused an integer overflow leading to a write past the heap boundary, crashing the application. (CVE-2015-2331 bnc#923240)

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-12-2015-154=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-154=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-154=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923240

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2331/

http://www.nessus.org/u?527e5452

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83711

File Name: suse_SU-2015-0668-1.nasl

Version: 2.13

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: High

Score: 8.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzip-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzip2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzip-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzip2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2331

BID: 73182