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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : php8-pear (SUSE-SU-2022:3198-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164903

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3198-1 advisory.

 - Add php8-pear to SLE15-SP4 (jsc#SLE-24728)
 - Update to 1.10.21
 - PEAR 1.10.13
 * unsupported protocol - use --force to continue
 * Add $this operator to _determineIfPowerpc calls
 - Update to 1.10.20
 - Archive_Tar 1.4.14
 * Properly fix symbolic link path traversal (CVE-2021-32610)
 - Archive_Tar 1.4.13
 * Relative symlinks failing (out-of path file extraction)
 - Archive_Tar 1.4.12
 - Archive_Tar 1.4.11
 - Archive_Tar 1.4.10
 * Fix block padding when the file buffer length is a multiple of 512 and smaller than Archive_Tar buffer length
 * Don't try to copy username/groupname in chroot jail

 - provides and obsoletes php7-pear-Archive_Tar, former location of PEAR/Archive/Tar.php

 - Update to version 1.10.19
 - PEAR 1.10.12
 * adjust dependencies based on new releases
 - XML_Util 1.4.5
 * fix Trying to access array offset on value of type int

 - Update to version 1.10.18
 - Remove pear-cacheid-array-check.patch (upstreamed)
 - Contents of .filemap are now sorted internally

 - Sort contents of .filemap to make build reproducible

 - Recommend php7-openssl to allow https sources to be used
 - Modify metadata_dir for system configuration only
 - Add /var/lib/pear directory where xml files are stored
 - Cleanup %files section

 - Only use the GPG keys of Chuck Burgess. Extracted from the Release Manager public keys.
 - Add release versions of PEAR modules

 - Install metadata files (registry, filemap, channels, ...) in /var/lib/pear/ instead of /usr/share/php7/PEAR/

 - Update to version 1.10.17

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 php8-pear and / or php8-pecl packages.

See Also

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-32610

http://www.nessus.org/u?5fb8beb2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164903

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3198-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/9/2022

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32610

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-pecl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-pear, 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: 9/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32610

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3198-1