SUSE SLES12 Security Update : less (SUSE-SU-2020:2687-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 143693

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for less fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2014-9488: Malformed UTF-8 data could have caused an out of bounds read in the UTF-8 decoding routines, causing an invalid read access (bsc#921719).

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-SP5-2020-2687=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 143693

File Name: suse_SU-2020-2687-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/9/2020

Updated: 2/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9488

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:less, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:less-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:less-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: 9/21/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9488

BID: 74159

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