SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : oniguruma (SUSE-SU-2022:3327-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 165304

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3327-1 advisory.

- CVE-2019-19246: Fixed an out of bounds access during regular expression matching (bsc#1157805).
- CVE-2019-19204: Fixed an out of bounds access when compiling a crafted regular expression (bsc#1164569).
- CVE-2019-19203: Fixed an out of bounds access when performing a string search (bsc#1164550).
- CVE-2019-16163: Fixed an uncontrolled recursion issue when compiling a crafted regular expression, which could lead to denial of service (bsc#1150130).
- CVE-2020-26159: Fixed an off-by-one buffer overflow (bsc#1177179).
- CVE-2019-13224: Fixed a potential use-after-free when handling multiple different encodings (bsc#1142847).

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 libonig4 and / or oniguruma-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 165304

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3327-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/22/2022

Updated: 9/24/2025

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-13224

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:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:oniguruma-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libonig4

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: 9/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13224, CVE-2019-16163, CVE-2019-19203, CVE-2019-19204, CVE-2019-19246

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3327-1

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