SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libsoup (SUSE-SU-2018:2204-2)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 121042

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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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1052916

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086036

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1100097

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2885/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12910/

http://www.nessus.org/u?80b64ad4

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 121042

File Name: suse_SU-2018-2204-2.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/9/2019

Updated: 2/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup-2_4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup-2_4-1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup-2_4-1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoup-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-Soup, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2885, CVE-2018-12910