SUSE SLES12 Security Update : python36 (SUSE-SU-2020:0302-1)

High Nessus Plugin ID 133448

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VPR Score: 7.4

Synopsis

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

Description

This update for python36 to version 3.6.10 fixes the following issues :

CVE-2017-18207: Fixed a denial of service in Wave_read._read_fmt_chunk() (bsc#1083507).

CVE-2019-16056: Fixed an issue where email parsing could fail for multiple @ signs (bsc#1149955).

CVE-2019-15903: Fixed a heap-based buffer over-read in libexpat (bsc#1149429).

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 Server 12-SP5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-302=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027282

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029377

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081750

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083507

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086001

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1088009

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094814

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109663

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1137942

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1138459

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141853

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149121

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149429

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149792

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149955

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151490

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1159035

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1159622

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709442

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=951166

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=983582

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18207/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000802/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1060/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20852/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10160/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15903/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16056/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5010/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9636/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9947/

http://www.nessus.org/u?68a41617

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 133448

File Name: suse_SU-2020-0302-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2020/02/04

Updated: 2020/02/06

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

VPR Score: 7.4

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_6m1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_6m1_0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python36, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python36-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python36-base-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python36-base-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python36-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python36-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 2020/02/03

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2018/03/01

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18207, CVE-2018-1000802, CVE-2018-1060, CVE-2018-20852, CVE-2019-10160, CVE-2019-15903, CVE-2019-16056, CVE-2019-5010, CVE-2019-9636, CVE-2019-9947