SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : glib2 (SUSE-SU-2018:3913-1)

High Nessus Plugin ID 120169

Synopsis

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

Description

This update for glib2 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2018-16428: Do not do a NULL pointer dereference (crash). Avoid that, at the cost of introducing a new translatable error message (bsc#1107121).

CVE-2018-16429: Fixed out-of-bounds read vulnerability ing_markup_parse_context_parse() (bsc#1107116).

Non-security issue fixed: various GVariant parsing issues have been resolved (bsc#1111499)

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 Packagehub Subpackages 15:zypper in
-t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-2018-2780=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-OBS-15-2018-2780=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2018-2780=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107116

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107121

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111499

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16428/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16429/

http://www.nessus.org/u?67f5a8b8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120169

File Name: suse_SU-2018-3913-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2019/01/02

Updated: 2019/09/10

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-devel-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-tools-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-2_0-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-fam, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-fam-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libglib-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libglib-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libglib-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libglib-2_0-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgmodule-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgmodule-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgmodule-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgmodule-2_0-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgobject-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgobject-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgobject-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgobject-2_0-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgthread-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgthread-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgthread-2_0-0-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgthread-2_0-0-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Patch Publication Date: 2018/11/26

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2018/09/04

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16428, CVE-2018-16429