openSUSE Security Update : dpkg / update-alternatives (openSUSE-2015-421)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84187

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

dpkg and update-alternatives were updated to 1.16.16 to fix one security issue and severan non-security bugs.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

- CVE-2015-0840: Specially crafted deb packages could have been used to bypass source package integrity verification in local installs (boo#926749)

Also contains a number of upstream bugs and improvements.

Solution

Update the affected dpkg / update-alternatives packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926749

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84187

File Name: openSUSE-2015-421.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/15/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dpkg, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dpkg-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dpkg-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dpkg-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dpkg-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:update-alternatives, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:update-alternatives-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:update-alternatives-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/5/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0840