SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : perl-YAML-LibYAML (SUSE-SU-2015:0953-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83869

Synopsis

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

Description

perl-YAML-LibYAML was updated to fix three security issues.

These security issues were fixed :

- CVE-2013-6393: The yaml_parser_scan_tag_uri function in scanner.c in LibYAML before 0.1.5 performed an incorrect cast, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted tags in a YAML document, which triggered a heap-based buffer overflow (bnc#860617, bnc#911782).

- CVE-2014-9130: scanner.c in LibYAML 0.1.5 and 0.1.6, as used in the YAML-LibYAML (aka YAML-XS) module for Perl, allowed context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and crash) via vectors involving line-wrapping (bnc#907809, bnc#911782).

- CVE-2014-2525: Heap-based buffer overflow in the yaml_parser_scan_uri_escapes function in LibYAML before 0.1.6 allowed context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long sequence of percent-encoded characters in a URI in a YAML file (bnc#868944, bnc#911782).

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 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-215=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-215=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860617

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868944

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907809

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911782

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6393/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-2525/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9130/

http://www.nessus.org/u?931cf879

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83869

File Name: suse_SU-2015-0953-2.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/28/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-yaml-libyaml, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-yaml-libyaml-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-yaml-libyaml-debugsource, 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: 2/10/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6393, CVE-2014-2525, CVE-2014-9130

BID: 65258, 66478, 71349