SUSE SLED11 Security Update : cabextract (SUSE-SU-2015:2131-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87122

Synopsis

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

Description

This security update fixes the following issues :

- Fix possible infinite loop caused DoS (bsc919283, CVE-2014-9556)

- Fix zero dereference (bsc#934524, CVE-2014-9732)

- Fix off by one (bsc#934527, CVE-2015-4470)

- Fix buffer under-read crash (bsc#934528, CVE-2015-4471)

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 Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-cabextract-12233=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-cabextract-12233=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-cabextract-12233=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-cabextract-12233=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=934524

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=934527

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=934528

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9556/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9732/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4470/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4471/

http://www.nessus.org/u?2c2d2f53

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87122

File Name: suse_SU-2015-2131-1.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/1/2015

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cabextract

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: 11/27/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/3/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9556, CVE-2014-9732, CVE-2015-4470, CVE-2015-4471

BID: 71851, 72474, 72487, 72492