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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libqt4 (SUSE-SU-2018:1902-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110966

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for libqt4 fixes the following issues: LibQt4 was updated to 4.8.7 (bsc#1039291, CVE-2016-10040): See http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/4.8/4.8.7/changes-4.8.7 for more details. Also libQtWebkit4 was updated to 2.3.4 to match libqt4.
Also following bugs were fixed :

 - Enable libqt4-devel-32bit (bsc#982826)

 - Fixed bolder font in Qt4 apps (boo#956357)

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-SP3-2018-1288=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-1288=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-1288=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-1288=1

See Also

http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/4.8/4.8.7/changes-4.8.7

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039291

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1042657

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956357

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964458

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982826

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10040/

http://www.nessus.org/u?95907001

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 110966

File Name: suse_SU-2018-1902-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/9/2018

Updated: 1/13/2021

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

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqtwebkit4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqtwebkit4-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqtwebkit4-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqca2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqca2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqca2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-devel-doc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-devel-doc-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-qt3support, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-qt3support-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-sql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-sql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-sql-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-sql-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-sql-plugins-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-sql-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-sql-postgresql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-sql-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-sql-sqlite-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-sql-unixodbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-sql-unixodbc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqt4-x11-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qt4-qtscript, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qt4-qtscript-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qt4-qtscript-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qt4-x11-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qt4-x11-tools-debuginfo, 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: 7/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10040