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