SUSE SLES11 Security Update : w3m (SUSE-SU-2016:3046-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 95625

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for w3m fixes the following issues :

- update to debian git version (bsc#1011293) addressed security issues: CVE-2016-9621: w3m:
global-buffer-overflow write (bsc#1012020) CVE-2016-9622: w3m: null deref (bsc#1012021) CVE-2016-9623: w3m: null deref (bsc#1012022) CVE-2016-9624: w3m: near-null deref (bsc#1012023) CVE-2016-9625: w3m: stack overflow (bsc#1012024) CVE-2016-9626: w3m: stack overflow (bsc#1012025) CVE-2016-9627: w3m: heap overflow read + deref (bsc#1012026) CVE-2016-9628: w3m: null deref (bsc#1012027) CVE-2016-9629: w3m: null deref (bsc#1012028) CVE-2016-9630: w3m: global-buffer-overflow read (bsc#1012029) CVE-2016-9631: w3m: null deref (bsc#1012030) CVE-2016-9632: w3m: global-buffer-overflow read (bsc#1012031) CVE-2016-9633: w3m: OOM (bsc#1012032) CVE-2016-9434: w3m: null deref (bsc#1011283) CVE-2016-9435: w3m: use uninit value (bsc#1011284) CVE-2016-9436: w3m: use uninit value (bsc#1011285) CVE-2016-9437: w3m: write to rodata (bsc#1011286) CVE-2016-9438: w3m: null deref (bsc#1011287) CVE-2016-9439: w3m: stack overflow (bsc#1011288) CVE-2016-9440: w3m: near-null deref (bsc#1011289) CVE-2016-9441: w3m: near-null deref (bsc#1011290) CVE-2016-9442: w3m: potential heap buffer corruption (bsc#1011291) CVE-2016-9443: w3m: null deref (bsc#1011292)

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 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-w3m-12875=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-w3m-12875=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 95625

File Name: suse_SU-2016-3046-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/8/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:w3m, 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: 12/7/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2074, CVE-2016-9422, CVE-2016-9423, CVE-2016-9424, CVE-2016-9425, CVE-2016-9434, CVE-2016-9435, CVE-2016-9436, CVE-2016-9437, CVE-2016-9438, CVE-2016-9439, CVE-2016-9440, CVE-2016-9441, CVE-2016-9442, CVE-2016-9443, CVE-2016-9621, CVE-2016-9622, CVE-2016-9623, CVE-2016-9624, CVE-2016-9625, CVE-2016-9626, CVE-2016-9627, CVE-2016-9628, CVE-2016-9629, CVE-2016-9630, CVE-2016-9631, CVE-2016-9632, CVE-2016-9633

BID: 40837

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