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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : 389-ds (SUSE-SU-2022:3029-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 164702

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3029-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2022-2850: Fixed an application crash when running a sync_repl client that could be triggered via a malformed cookie (bsc#1202470).

 Non-security fixes:

 - Update to version 1.4.4.19~git46.c900a28c8:
 * CI - makes replication/acceptance_test.py::test_modify_entry more robust
 * UI - LDAP Editor is not updated when we switch instances
 - Improvements to openldap import with password policy present (bsc#1199908)
 - Update to version 1.4.4.19~git43.8ba2ea21f:
 * fix covscan
 * BUG - pid file handling
 * Memory leak in slapi_ldap_get_lderrno
 * Need a compatibility option about sub suffix handling
 * Release tarballs don't contain cockpit webapp
 * Replication broken after password change
 * Harden ReplicationManager.wait_for_replication
 * dscontainer: TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'str' and 'int'
 * CLI - dsconf backend export breaks with multiple backends
 * CLI - improve task handling

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1199908

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1202470

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2850

http://www.nessus.org/u?62cb4c14

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 164702

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3029-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/6/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2850

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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:lib389, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:389-ds, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:389-ds-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsvrcore0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 9/5/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2850

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3029-1