SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : libmspack (SUSE-SU-2015:2215-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87276

Synopsis

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

Description

libmspack was updated to fix several security vulnerabilities.

- Fix NULL pointer dereference on a crafted CAB.
(bsc#934524, CVE-2014-9732)

- Fix denial of service while processing crafted CHM file.
(bsc#934525, CVE-2015-4467)

- Fix denial of service while processing crafted CHM file.
(bsc#934529, CVE-2015-4472)

- Fix pointer arithmetic overflow during CHM decompression. (bsc#934526, CVE-2015-4469)

- Fix off-by-one buffer over-read in mspack/mszipd.c.
(bsc#934527, CVE-2015-4470)

- Fix off-by-one buffer under-read in mspack/lzxd.c.
(bsc#934528, CVE-2015-4471)

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 Software Development Kit 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-libmspack-12249=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-libmspack-12249=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-libmspack-12249=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-libmspack-12249=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-libmspack-12249=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-libmspack-12249=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-libmspack-12249=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-libmspack-12249=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-libmspack-12249=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=934524

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=934525

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=934526

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=934527

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=934528

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=934529

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9732/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4467/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4469/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4470/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4471/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4472/

http://www.nessus.org/u?8c69b1fd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87276

File Name: suse_SU-2015-2215-1.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/9/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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:libmspack0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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: 12/7/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9732, CVE-2015-4467, CVE-2015-4469, CVE-2015-4470, CVE-2015-4471, CVE-2015-4472

BID: 72474, 72486, 72487, 72488, 72490, 72492