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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : 389-ds (SUSE-SU-2022:3286-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 165229

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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-2022:3286-1 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 2.0.16~git20.219f047ae:
 * Fix missing 'not' in description
 * CI - makes replication/acceptance_test.py::test_modify_entry more robust
 * fix repl keep alive event interval
 * Sync_repl may crash while managing invalid cookie
 * Hostname when set to localhost causing failures in other tests
 * lib389 - do not set backend name to lowercase
 * keep alive update event starts too soon
 * Fix various memory leaks
 * UI - LDAP Editor is not updated when we switch instances
 * Supplier should do periodic updates
 - Update sudoers schema to support UTF-8 (bsc#1197998)
 - Update to version 2.0.16~git9.e2a858a86:
 * UI - Various fixes and RFE's for UI
 * Remove problematic language from source code
 * CI - disable TLS hostname checking
 * Update npm and cargo packages
 * Support ECDSA private keys for TLS

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/1197998

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1202470

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?b2c86fc5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 165229

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3286-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2022

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: 9/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2850

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3286-1