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VPR Score: 8.4
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed :
CVE-2020-14314: Fixed a potential negative array index in do_split() (bsc#1173798).
CVE-2020-14331: Fixed a missing check in vgacon scrollback handling (bsc#1174205).
CVE-2020-16166: Fixed a potential issue which could have allowed remote attackers to make observations that help to obtain sensitive information about the internal state of the network RNG (bsc#1174757).
CVE-2019-16746: Fixed an improper check of the length of variable elements in a beacon head, leading to a buffer overflow (bsc#1152107).
CVE-2020-14386: Fixed a potential local privilege escalation via memory corruption (bsc#1176069).
The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.
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 Crowbar 8 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2020-2582=1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-8-2020-2582=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP3-2020-2582=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2020-2582=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-BCL-2020-2582=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP3 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-HA-12-SP3-2020-2582=1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-5-2020-2582=1
HPE Helion Openstack 8 :
zypper in -t patch HPE-Helion-OpenStack-8-2020-2582=1