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.

- When reading a specially crafted 7Z archive, the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry can result in an infinite loop. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' sevenz package. (CVE-2021-35515)

- When reading a specially crafted 7Z archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' sevenz package. (CVE-2021-35516)

- When reading a specially crafted TAR archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' tar package. (CVE-2021-35517)

- When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package. (CVE-2021-36090)

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188463

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188464

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188465

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188466

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35515

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35516

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35517

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-36090

http://www.nessus.org/u?4e9595e4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 152248

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

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/6/2021

Updated: 7/13/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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: 7

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:F/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