openSUSE Security Update : libotr / libotr2 (openSUSE-2016-333)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 89914

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

libotr and libotr2 were updated to fix one security issue :

- CVE-2016-2851: Integer overflow vulnerability allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on 64 bit platforms (boo#969785)

Solution

Update the affected libotr / libotr2 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=969785

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 89914

File Name: openSUSE-2016-333.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2016

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

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libotr5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libotr2-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libotr-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libotr2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libotr2-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libotr2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libotr5-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libotr-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libotr-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libotr2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libotr2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libotr-tools-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2851