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openSUSE Security Update : links (openSUSE-2018-330)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 108785

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for links to version 2.15 fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2017-11114: Buffer over-read vulnerability in case of corrupted UTF-8 data (boo#1051448)

This update also contains a number of upstream improvements :

 - Rewrite google docs URLs to the download link, so that the file can be viewed in external viewer

 - Improved handling of compressed connections and content

 - various other bug fixes and improvements

Solution

Update the affected links packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051448

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 108785

File Name: openSUSE-2018-330.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/2/2018

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:links, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:links-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:links-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11114