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openSUSE Security Update : coreutils / coreutils-testsuite (openSUSE-2015-420)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 84186

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

coreutils was updated to fix one security issue and one non-security bug.

The following vulnerability was fixed :

 - CVE-2015-4042: Use a later version of the patch that fixed (boo#928749, CVE-2015-4041), also avoiding I18N issue

The following bug was fixed :

 - boo#933396: adjust reference to info nodes in man pages

Solution

Update the affected coreutils / coreutils-testsuite packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=928749

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=933396

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 84186

File Name: openSUSE-2015-420.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/15/2015

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:coreutils-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:coreutils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:coreutils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:coreutils-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:coreutils-testsuite

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/5/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4041, CVE-2015-4042