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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : brotli (SUSE-SU-2021:3942-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 155903

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3942-1 advisory.

 - A buffer overflow exists in the Brotli library versions prior to 1.0.8 where an attacker controlling the input length of a one-shot decompression request to a script can trigger a crash, which happens when copying over chunks of data larger than 2 GiB. It is recommended to update your Brotli library to 1.0.8 or later. If one cannot update, we recommend to use the streaming API as opposed to the one-shot API, and impose chunk size limits. (CVE-2020-8927)

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 libbrotli-devel, libbrotlicommon1, libbrotlidec1 and / or libbrotlienc1 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175825

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8927

http://www.nessus.org/u?40c0114e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 155903

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3942-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2021

Updated: 7/13/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8927

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libbrotli-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libbrotlicommon1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libbrotlidec1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libbrotlienc1, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8927

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3942-1