SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libarchive (SUSE-SU-2021:3722-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 155578

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3722-1 advisory.

- CVE-2019-19221: Fixed out-of-bounds read caused by incorrect mbrtowc or mbtowc call (bsc#1157569)

- backporting symlink security fixes from 3.5.2:
- extracting with ACLs modifies ACLs of target (bsc#1192425)
- modifies file flags of target (bsc#1192426)
- avoid follow on fixup entries (bsc#1192427)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected libarchive-devel and / or libarchive13 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 155578

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3722-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/18/2021

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19221

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libarchive-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libarchive13, 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: 11/17/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19221

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3722-1

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