SUSE SLED15: gdk-pixbuf-devel / gdk-pixbuf-devel-32bit / gdk-pixbuf-lang / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:3153-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164880

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3153-1 advisory.

Update to version 2.42.9:
- CVE-2021-44648: Fixed overflow vulnerability in lzw code size (bsc#1194633).

Bugfixes:
- Fixed loading of larger images (glgo#GNOME/gdk-pixbuf#216).
- Avoided bashism in baselibs postscript (bsc#1195391).

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164880

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3153-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/8/2022

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

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-2021-44648

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-gdkpixbuf-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gdk-pixbuf-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-gdkpixdata-2_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gdk-pixbuf-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer, 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: 9/7/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-44648

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3153-1

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