SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : apache-commons-compress (SUSE-SU-2021:2612-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152248

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2612-1 advisory.

- Updated to 1.21
- CVE-2021-35515: Fixed an infinite loop when reading a specially crafted 7Z archive. (bsc#1188463)
- CVE-2021-35516: Fixed an excessive memory allocation when reading a specially crafted 7Z archive.
(bsc#1188464)
- CVE-2021-35517: Fixed an excessive memory allocation when reading a specially crafted TAR archive.
(bsc#1188465)
- CVE-2021-36090: Fixed an excessive memory allocation when reading a specially crafted ZIP archive.
(bsc#1188466)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected apache-commons-compress package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 152248

File Name: suse_SU-2021-2612-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/6/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36090

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache-commons-compress, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 8/5/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-35515, CVE-2021-35516, CVE-2021-35517, CVE-2021-36090

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:2612-1

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