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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : tigervnc (SUSE-SU-2017:0519-1)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 97299
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for tigervnc provides the following fixes :- Prevent malicious server from crashing a server via a buffer overflow, a similar flaw as the LibVNCServer issues CVE-2016-9941 and CVE-2016-9942.. (bsc#1019274)
- CVE-2016-10207: Prevent potential crash due to insufficient clean-up after failure to establish TLS connection. (bsc#1023012)
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-SP1-2017-263=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2017-263=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1019274
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023012
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10207/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9941/
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 97299
File Name: suse_SU-2017-0519-1.nasl
Version: 3.7
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 2/21/2017
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: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.5
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: 8.5
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:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xorg-x11-xvnc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tigervnc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xorg-x11-xvnc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tigervnc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tigervnc-debugsource
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 2/20/2017
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/31/2016