SUSE SLED15: libXpm-devel / libXpm-devel-32bit / libXpm-tools / libXpm4 / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:0171-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 170706

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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-2023:0171-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-46285: Fixed an infinite loop that could be triggered when reading a XPM image with a C-style comment that is never closed (bsc#1207029).
- CVE-2022-44617: Fixed an excessive resource consumption that could be triggered when reading small crafted XPM image (bsc#1207030).
- CVE-2022-4883: Fixed an issue that made decompression commands susceptible to PATH environment variable manipulation attacks (bsc#1207031).

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: 170706

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0171-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/27/2023

Updated: 6/26/2026

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: 5.7

Percentile: 96.65

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-2022-4883

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:libxpm4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxpm-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxpm-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libxpm4-32bit

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: 1/26/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-44617, CVE-2022-46285, CVE-2022-4883

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0171-1

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