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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : lcms2 (SUSE-SU-2018:3498-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120148

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for lcms2 fixes the following issues :

CVE-2018-16435: A integer overflow was fixed in the AllocateDataSet function in cmscgats.c, that could lead to a heap-based buffer overflow in the SetData function via a crafted file in the second argument to cmsIT8LoadFromFile. (bsc#1108813)

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 Module for Basesystem 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2018-2504=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1108813

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16435/

http://www.nessus.org/u?b7d41bba

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120148

File Name: suse_SU-2018-3498-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/2/2019

Updated: 3/16/2020

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:lcms2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:lcms2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblcms2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblcms2-2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblcms2-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 10/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16435