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SUSE SLED12 Security Update : zziplib (SUSE-SU-2018:0919-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 109011

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for zziplib fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :

 - CVE-2018-7726: There is a bus error caused by the__zzip_parse_root_directory function of zip.c.
 Attackers could leverage thisvulnerability to cause a denial of service (bsc#1084517).

 - CVE-2018-7725: An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in zzip_disk_fread in mmapped.c. The vulnerability causes an application crash, which leads to denial of service (bsc#1084519).

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP3-2018-619=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-619=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-619=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084517

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084519

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7725/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7726/

http://www.nessus.org/u?a4cf95a8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 109011

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0919-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/12/2018

Updated: 9/10/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzzip-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libzzip-0-13-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:zziplib-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7725, CVE-2018-7726