SUSE SLES12 Security Update : wpa_supplicant (SUSE-SU-2021:0477-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 146517

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for wpa_supplicant fixes the following issues :

CVE-2021-0326: P2P group information processing vulnerability (bsc#1181777).

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-SP5-2021-477=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181777

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-0326/

http://www.nessus.org/u?8fd3e5f3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 146517

File Name: suse_SU-2021-0477-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/16/2021

Updated: 1/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.9

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-0326

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wpa_supplicant, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wpa_supplicant-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wpa_supplicant-debugsource, 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: 2/15/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-0326