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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : php74 (SUSE-SU-2023:2848-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 178406

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2848-1 advisory.

 - The vulnerability exists due to a missing error check and insufficient random bytes in HTTP Digest authentication for SOAP. A remote attacker can perform a brute-force attack and bypass authentication process. (CVE-2023-3247)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1212349

http://www.nessus.org/u?b26b202b

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3247

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 178406

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2848-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2023

Updated: 8/17/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-3247

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php74, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-enchant, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-fpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-json, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-opcache, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-phar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-posix, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-readline, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sockets, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sodium, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-tidy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-zlib, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 7/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-3247

IAVA: 2023-A-0321-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2848-1