SUSE SLES12 Security Update : rpm (SUSE-SU-2022:3939-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167327

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3939-1 advisory.

- Fixed PGP parsing bugs (bsc#1185299).
- Fixed various format handling bugs (bsc#996280).
- CVE-2021-3421: Fixed vulnerability where unsigned headers could be injected into the rpm database (bsc#1183543).
- CVE-2021-20271: Fixed vulnerability where a corrupted rpm could corrupt the rpm database (bsc#1183545).
- CVE-2021-20266: Fixed missing bounds check in hdrblobInit (bsc#1183632).

Bugfixes:

- Fixed deadlock when multiple rpm processes tried to acquire the database lock (bsc#1183659).

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167327

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3939-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/13/2022

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20271

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rpm-python, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rpm-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rpm-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rpm-build, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-rpm

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: 11/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/22/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20266, CVE-2021-20271, CVE-2021-3421

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3939-1

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