SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libX11 / libxcb (SUSE-SU-2018:3102-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 118080

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for libX11 and libxcb fixes the following issue :

libX11 :

These security issues were fixed :

CVE-2018-14599: The function XListExtensions was vulnerable to an off-by-one error caused by malicious server responses, leading to DoS or possibly unspecified other impact (bsc#1102062).

CVE-2018-14600: The function XListExtensions interpreted a variable as signed instead of unsigned, resulting in an out-of-bounds write (of up to 128 bytes), leading to DoS or remote code execution (bsc#1102068).

CVE-2018-14598: A malicious server could have sent a reply in which the first string overflows, causing a variable to be set to NULL that will be freed later on, leading to DoS (segmentation fault) (bsc#1102073).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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 Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-2202=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-2202=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-2202=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 118080

File Name: suse_SU-2018-3102-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/12/2018

Updated: 2/8/2022

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14600

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libx11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libx11-6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libx11-6-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libx11-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libx11-xcb1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libx11-xcb1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-dri2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-dri2-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-dri2-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-dri3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-dri3-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-dri3-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-glx0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-glx0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-present0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-present0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-randr0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-randr0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-render0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-render0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-shape0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-shape0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-shm0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-shm0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-sync1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-sync1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-xf86dri0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-xf86dri0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-xfixes0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-xfixes0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-xinerama0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-xinerama0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-xkb1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-xkb1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-xv0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb-xv0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxcb1-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 10/11/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14598, CVE-2018-14599, CVE-2018-14600

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