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openSUSE Security Update : pigz (openSUSE-2016-303)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89717

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Pigz, a multi-threaded implementation of gzip, was updated to fix one vulnerability.

The following vulnerability was fixed :

 - A crafted file could have caused an unwanted directory traversal on extract (CVE-2015-1191)

Solution

Update the affected pigz packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=913627

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89717

File Name: openSUSE-2016-303.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1191