SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : python (SUSE-SU-2016:2106-1) (httpoxy)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 93300

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for python fixes the following issues :

- CVE-2016-0772: smtplib vulnerability opens startTLS stripping attack (bsc#984751)

- CVE-2016-5636: heap overflow when importing malformed zip files (bsc#985177)

- CVE-2016-5699: incorrect validation of HTTP headers allow header injection (bsc#985348)

- CVE-2016-1000110: HTTPoxy vulnerability in urllib, fixed by disregarding HTTP_PROXY when REQUEST_METHOD is also set (bsc#989523)

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 Workstation Extension 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP1-2016-1245=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2016-1245=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-1245=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-1245=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 93300

File Name: suse_SU-2016-2106-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/2/2016

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

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:suse_linux:libpython2_7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-base-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-xml-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-gdbm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-demo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-tk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-gdbm, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython2_7-1_0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-base-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython2_7-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-curses-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-idle, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-tk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-xml

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0772, CVE-2016-1000110, CVE-2016-5636, CVE-2016-5699

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