SUSE SLES15: glib2-devel / glib2-lang / glib2-tools / libgio-2_0-0 / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3535-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180539

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3535-1 advisory.

- CVE-2021-28153: Fixed an issue where symlink targets would be incorrectly created as empty files.
(bsc#1183533)
- CVE-2023-32665: Fixed GVariant deserialisation which does not match spec for non-normal data.
(bsc#1211945)
- CVE-2023-32643: Fixed a heap-buffer-overflow in g_variant_serialised_get_child(). (bsc#1211946)
- CVE-2023-29499: Fixed GVariant offset table entry size which is not checked in is_normal().
(bsc#1211947)
- CVE-2023-32636: Fixed a wrong timeout in fuzz_variant_text(). (bsc#1211948)
- CVE-2023-32611: Fixed an issue where g_variant_byteswap() can take a long time with some non-normal inputs. (bsc#1211951)

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: 180539

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3535-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/6/2023

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: 5

Percentile: 94.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28153

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-32643

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgmodule-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libglib-2_0-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glib2-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgmodule-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgobject-2_0-0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgio-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgthread-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libglib-2_0-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgobject-2_0-0-32bit

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: 9/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28153, CVE-2023-29499, CVE-2023-32611, CVE-2023-32636, CVE-2023-32643, CVE-2023-32665

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3535-1

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