SUSE SLES15 Security Update : libcaca (SUSE-SU-2022:0754-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158750

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0754-1 advisory.

- CVE-2021-30499: Fixed a memory corruption issue when exporting troff sources (bsc#1184751).
- CVE-2021-30498: Fixed a memory corruption issue when exporting TGA images (bsc#1184752).
- CVE-2021-3410: Fixed an illegal WRITE memory access (bsc#1182731).

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 libcaca-devel, libcaca0 and / or libcaca0-plugins packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 158750

File Name: suse_SU-2022-0754-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/9/2022

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-30499

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3410

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcaca0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcaca-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcaca0-plugins

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: 3/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-30498, CVE-2021-30499, CVE-2021-3410

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:0754-1

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