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SUSE SLES12: grub2 / grub2-arm64-efi / grub2-i386-pc / grub2-s390x-emu / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:4302-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 168340

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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-2022:4302-1 advisory.

 Security Fixes:

 - CVE-2022-2601: Fixed buffer overflow in grub_font_construct_glyph (bsc#1205178).
 - CVE-2022-3775: Fixed integer underflow in blit_comb() (bsc#1205182).

 Other:

 - Bump upstream SBAT generation to 3
 - Fix unreadable filesystem with xfs v4 superblock (bsc#1205520).
 - Remove zfs modules (bsc#1205554).

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1205178

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1205182

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1205520

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1205554

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2601

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3775

http://www.nessus.org/u?367ddf3c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 168340

File Name: suse_SU-2022-4302-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/2/2022

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: High

Score: 7.7

Percentile: 99.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2601

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/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:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-i386-pc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-s390x-emu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-x86_64-efi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-x86_64-xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-arm64-efi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-powerpc-ieee1275, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-snapper-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:grub2-systemd-sleep-plugin

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: 12/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2601, CVE-2022-3775

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:4302-1