openSUSE Security Update : perl-LWP-Protocol-https (openSUSE-SU-2014:0710-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 75370

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

perl-LWP-Protocol-https was updated to prevent a possible MITM if the environment variables HTTPS_CA_DIR or HTTPS_CA_FILE were set (CVE-2014-3230).

Solution

Update the affected perl-LWP-Protocol-https package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876862

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00072.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 75370

File Name: openSUSE-2014-390.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-lwp-protocol-https, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/26/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3230

BID: 67202