SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : wget (SUSE-SU-2016:2226-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 93369

Synopsis

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

Description

This update for wget fixes the following issues :

- Fix for HTTP to a FTP redirection file name confusion vulnerability (bsc#984060, CVE-2016-4971).

- Work around a libidn vulnerability (bsc#937096, CVE-2015-2059).

- Fix for wget fails with basicauth: Failed writing HTTP request: Bad file descriptor (bsc#958342)

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 Server 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-1309=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-1309=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=937096

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958342

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984060

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2059/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4971/

http://www.nessus.org/u?0ac3f58d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93369

File Name: suse_SU-2016-2226-1.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/8/2016

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: High

Score: 7.4

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: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wget, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wget-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wget-debugsource

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: 9/2/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2059, CVE-2016-4971

BID: 72736