SUSE SLED15: busybox / busybox-adduser / busybox-attr / busybox-bc / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:4371-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 168536

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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-2022:4371-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-30065: Fixed use-after-free in the AWK applet (bsc#1199744).
- CVE-2014-9645: Fixed loading of unwanted module with / in module names (bsc#914660).

- Update to 1.35.0 also introduced:
- awk: fix printf %%, fix read beyond end of buffer
- chrt: silence analyzer warning
- libarchive: remove duplicate forward declaration
- mount: 'mount -o rw ....' should not fall back to RO mount
- ps: fix -o pid=PID,args interpreting entire 'PID,args' as header
- tar: prevent malicious archives with long name sizes causing OOM
- udhcpc6: fix udhcp_find_option to actually find DHCP6 options
- xxd: fix -p -r
- support for new optoins added to basename, cpio, date, find, mktemp, wget and others

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: 168536

File Name: suse_SU-2022-4371-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/9/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-30065

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:busybox-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:busybox, 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: 12/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9645, CVE-2022-30065

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:4371-1

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