SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libsoup (SUSE-SU-2018:2204-2)
High Nessus Plugin ID 121042
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for libsoup fixes the following issues :
Security issue fixed :
CVE-2018-12910: Fix crash when handling empty hostnames (bsc#1100097).
CVE-2017-2885: Fix chunk decoding buffer overrun that could be exploited against either clients or servers (bsc#1052916).
Bug fixes: bsc#1086036: translation-update-upstream commented out for Leap
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 OpenStack Cloud 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2019-25=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-25=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-25=1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-4-2019-25=1