A flaw was found in Caribou due to a regression of CVE-2020-25712 fix. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass screen-locking applications that leverage Caribou as an input mechanism. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A flaw was found in Caribou due to a regression of CVE-2020-25712 fix. An attacker could use this flaw to     bypass screen-locking applications that leverage Caribou as an input mechanism. The highest threat from     this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-3567)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:1071-1 advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2414-1 advisory.

    Security issue fixed:

    - CVE-2021-3567: Fixed a segfault when attempting to use shifted characters (bsc#1186617).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:2414-1 advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2007-1 advisory.

    Security issue fixed:

    - CVE-2021-3567: Fixed a segfault when attempting to use shifted characters (bsc#1186617).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:1943-1 advisory.

    Security issue fixed:

    - CVE-2021-3567: Fixed a segfault when attempting to use shifted characters (bsc#1186617).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
256179	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-3567	Nessus	Misc.	high
151938	openSUSE 15 Security Update : caribou (openSUSE-SU-2021:1071-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
151881	SUSE SLED15: caribou / caribou-common / caribou-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2414-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
151866	openSUSE 15 Security Update : caribou (openSUSE-SU-2021:2414-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
150873	SUSE SLES15: caribou / caribou-common / caribou-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2007-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
150739	SUSE SLED12: caribou / caribou-common / caribou-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:1943-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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