SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libXpm (SUSE-SU-2023:3962-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 182564

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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 packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3962-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-43788: Fixed an out of bounds read when creating an image (bsc#1215686).
- CVE-2023-43789: Fixed an out of bounds read when parsing an XPM file with a corrupted colormap (bsc#1215687).

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 libXpm-devel, libXpm-tools, libXpm4 and / or libXpm4-32bit packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 182564

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3962-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/5/2023

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.67

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43789

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

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: 10/4/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43788, CVE-2023-43789

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3962-1

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