SUSE SLES11 Security Update : dnsmasq (SUSE-SU-2017:2619-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 103640

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for dnsmasq fixes the following security issues :

- CVE-2017-14491: 2 byte heap based overflow.
[bsc#1060354]

- CVE-2017-14492: heap based overflow. [bsc#1060355]

- CVE-2017-14493: stack based overflow. [bsc#1060360]

- CVE-2017-14494: DHCP - info leak. [bsc#1060361]

- CVE-2017-14495: DNS - OOM DoS. [bsc#1060362]

- CVE-2017-14496: DNS - DoS Integer underflow.
[bsc#1060364] This update brings a (small) potential incompatibility in the handling of 'basename' in
--pxe-service. Please read the CHANGELOG and the documentation if you are using this option.

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-dnsmasq-13294=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-dnsmasq-13294=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 103640

File Name: suse_SU-2017-2619-1.nasl

Version: 3.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/3/2017

Updated: 11/19/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-14493

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dnsmasq, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2015

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3294, CVE-2015-8899, CVE-2017-14491, CVE-2017-14492, CVE-2017-14493, CVE-2017-14494, CVE-2017-14495, CVE-2017-14496

BID: 74452

IAVA: 2017-A-0284-S

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