SUSE SLES12 Security Update : python36 (SUSE-SU-2021:3486-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 154302

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3486-1 advisory.

- Update to 3.6.15:
- CVE-2021-3737: Fixed a DoS caused by infinitely reading potential HTTP headers after a 100 Continue status response from the server. (bsc#1189241)
- CVE-2021-3426: Fixed an information disclosure via pydoc. (bsc#1183374)
- CVE-2021-3733: Fixed a ReDoS in urllib.request. (bsc#1189287)

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 libpython3_6m1_0, python36 and / or python36-base packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 154302

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3486-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/21/2021

Updated: 6/26/2026

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

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.7

Temporal Score: 2.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3426

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python36, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpython3_6m1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python36-base

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: 10/20/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3426, CVE-2021-3733, CVE-2021-3737

IAVA: 2021-A-0263-S, 2021-A-0497-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3486-1

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