openSUSE 15 Security Update : nim (openSUSE-SU-2022:10101-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 164473

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:10101-1 advisory.

Includes upstream security fixes for:

* (boo#1175333, CVE-2020-15693) httpClient is vulnerable to a CR-LF injection
* (boo#1175334, CVE-2020-15692) mishandle of argument to browsers.openDefaultBrowser
* (boo#1175332, CVE-2020-15694) httpClient.get().contentLength() fails to properly validate the server response
* (boo#1192712, CVE-2021-41259) null byte accepted in getContent function, leading to URI validation bypass
* (boo#1185948, CVE-2021-29495) stdlib httpClient does not validate peer certificates by default
* (boo#1185085, CVE-2021-21374) Improper verification of the SSL/TLS certificate
* (boo#1185084, CVE-2021-21373) 'nimble refresh' falls back to a non-TLS URL in case of error
* (boo#1185083, CVE-2021-21372) doCmd can be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands
* (boo#1181705, CVE-2020-15690) Standard library asyncftpclient lacks a check for newline character

Update to 1.6.6

* standard library use consistent styles for variable names so it can be used in projects which force a consistent style with
--styleCheck:usages option.
* ARC/ORC are now considerably faster at method dispatching, bringing its performance back on the level of the refc memory management.
* Full changelog:
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2022/05/05/version-166-released.html
- Previous updates and changelogs:
* 1.6.4:
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2022/02/08/version-164-released.html
* 1.6.2:
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/12/17/version-162-released.html
* 1.6.0:
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/10/19/version-160-released.html
* 1.4.8:
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/05/25/version-148-released.html
* 1.4.6:
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/04/15/versions-146-and-1212-released.html
* 1.4.4:
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/02/23/versions-144-and-1210-released.html
* 1.4.2:
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/12/01/version-142-released.html
* 1.4.0:
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/16/version-140-released.html

update to 1.2.16

* oids: switch from PRNG to random module
* nimc.rst: fix table markup
* nimRawSetjmp: support Windows
* correctly enable chronos
* bigints are not supposed to work on 1.2.x
* disable nimpy
* misc bugfixes
* fixes a 'mixin' statement handling regression [backport:1.2

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 nim package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 164473

File Name: openSUSE-2022-10101-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/28/2022

Updated: 1/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15692

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.4, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nim

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: 8/27/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15690, CVE-2020-15692, CVE-2020-15693, CVE-2020-15694, CVE-2021-21372, CVE-2021-21373, CVE-2021-21374, CVE-2021-29495

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