SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2019:0339-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 122149

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for curl fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-3822: Fixed a NTLMv2 type-3 header stack-based buffer overflow (bsc#1123377).

CVE-2019-3823: Fixed an out-of-bounds read in the SMTP end-of-response (bsc#1123378).

CVE-2018-16890: Fixed an out-of-bounds buffer read in NTLM type2 (bsc#1123371).

CVE-2018-16842: Fixed an out-of-bounds read in tool_msgs.c (bsc#1113660).

CVE-2018-16840: Fixed a use-after-free in handle close (bsc#1113029).

CVE-2018-16839: Fixed an SASL password overflow caused by an integer overflow (bsc#1112758).

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-339=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-339=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-339=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 122149

File Name: suse_SU-2019-0339-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/13/2019

Updated: 12/5/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: 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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:curl-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcurl4-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 2/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/31/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16839, CVE-2018-16840, CVE-2018-16842, CVE-2018-16890, CVE-2019-3822, CVE-2019-3823

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