Detections
Analytics

openSUSE Security Update : atheme (openSUSE-2016-590)

high Nessus Plugin ID 91207

Language:

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for atheme fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2016-4478: Under certain circumstances, a remote attacker could cause denial of service due to a buffer overflow in the XMLRPC response encoding code (boo#978170)

 - CVE-2014-9773: Remote attacker could change Atheme's behavior by registering/dropping certain accounts/nicks (boo#978170)

The version update to 7.2.6 also contains a number of upstream fixes.

Solution

Update the affected atheme packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=978170

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91207

File Name: openSUSE-2016-590.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:atheme-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:atheme-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libathemecore1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libathemecore1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:atheme, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:atheme-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9773, CVE-2016-4478