SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : snakeyaml (SUSE-SU-2022:3397-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165488

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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 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3397-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-38750: Fixed uncaught exception in org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.BaseConstructor.constructObject (bsc#1203158).
- CVE-2022-38749: Fixed StackOverflowError for many open unmatched brackets (bsc#1203149).
- CVE-2022-38752: Fixed uncaught exception in java.base/java.util.ArrayList.hashCode (bsc#1203154).
- CVE-2022-38751: Fixed unrestricted data matched with Regular Expressions (bsc#1203153).
- CVE-2022-25857: Fixed denial of service vulnerability due missing to nested depth limitation for collections (bsc#1202932).

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 snakeyaml and / or snakeyaml-javadoc packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165488

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3397-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/27/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.82

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13936

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:snakeyaml

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: 9/26/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13936, CVE-2022-25857, CVE-2022-38749, CVE-2022-38750, CVE-2022-38751, CVE-2022-38752

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3397-1

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