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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mdadm (SUSE-SU-2023:3691-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181752

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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 a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3691-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2023-28736: Fixed a buffer overflow (bsc#1214244).
 - CVE-2023-28938: Fixed uncontrolled resource consumption (bsc#1214245).

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 mdadm package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1214244

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1214245

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1214974

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28736

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28938

http://www.nessus.org/u?5d72841a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181752

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3691-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/21/2023

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28736

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mdadm

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: 9/19/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28736, CVE-2023-28938

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3691-1