SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : libgit2 (SUSE-SU-2022:3495-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165656

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3495-1 advisory.

- Fixed DoS by oob write in constructed commit object with a very large number of parents (bsc#1158981).
- CVE-2019-1352: Fixed git on Windows being unaware of NTFS Alternate Data Streams (bnc#1158790).
- CVE-2022-24765: Fixed potential command injection via git worktree (bsc#1198234).
- CVE-2022-29187: Fixed incomplete fix for CVE-2022-24765 (bsc#1201431).

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 libgit2-26, libgit2-26-32bit and / or libgit2-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165656

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3495-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/5/2022

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1352

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgit2-26, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgit2-devel, 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: 10/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1352, CVE-2022-24765, CVE-2022-29187

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3495-1

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