openSUSE Security Update : libidn (openSUSE-2016-925)

high Nessus Plugin ID 92743

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This libidn update to version 1.33 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2015-8948, CVE-2016-6262: Fixed an out-of-bounds-read when reading one zero byte as input (bsc#990189).

- CVE-2016-6263: Fixed stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize to reject invalid UTF-8 (bsc#boo#990191).

Included bugfixes :

- Fixed crash in idna_to_unicode_8z8z and idna_to_unicode_8zlz (introduced in 1.31).

- API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.

- Update gpg keyring

Solution

Update the affected libidn packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=990189

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=990191

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 92743

File Name: openSUSE-2016-925.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/5/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:P/I:N/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:H/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libidn-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libidn-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libidn-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libidn-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libidn11, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libidn11-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libidn11-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libidn11-debuginfo-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8948, CVE-2016-6262, CVE-2016-6263