SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : yq (SUSE-SU-2023:4000-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 182745

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4000-1 advisory.

yq was updated to 4.35.2 (bsc#1215808):

* Fixed number parsing as float bug in JSON #1756
* Fixed string, null concatenation consistency #1712
* Fixed expression parsing issue #1711

Update to 4.35.1:

* Added Lua output support
* Added BSD checksum format

Update to 4.34.1:

* Added shell output format
* Fixed nil pointer dereference

Update to 4.33.3:

* Fixed bug when splatting empty array #1613
* Added scalar output for TOML (#1617)
* Fixed passing of read-only context in pipe (partial fix for #1631)

Update to 4.33.2:

* Add ``--nul-output|-0`` flag to separate element with NUL character (#1550) Thanks @vaab!
* Add removable-media interface plug declaration to the snap packaging(#1618) Thanks @brlin-tw!
* Scalar output now handled in csv, tsv and property files

Update to 4.33.1:

* Added read-only TOML support! #1364. Thanks @pelletier for making your API available in your toml lib :)
* Added warning when auto detect by file type is outputs JSON

Update to 4.32.2:

* Fixes parsing terraform tfstate files results in 'unknown' format
* Added divide and modulo operators (#1593)
* Add support for decoding base64 strings without padding
* Add filter operation (#1588) - thanks @rbren!
* Detect input format based on file name extension (#1582)
* Auto output format when input format is automatically detected
* Fixed npe in log #1596
* Improved binary file size!

Update to 4.31.2:

* Fixed merged anchor reference problem #1482
* Fixed xml encoding of ProcInst #1563, improved XML comment handling
* Allow build without json and xml support (#1556) Thanks

Update to 4.31.1:

* Added shuffle command #1503
* Added ability to sort by multiple fields #1541
* Added @sh encoder #1526
* Added @uri/@urid encoder/decoder #1529
* Fixed date comparison with string date #1537
* Added from_unix/to_unix Operators

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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 yq, yq-bash-completion, yq-fish-completion and / or yq-zsh-completion packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 182745

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4000-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/7/2023

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:yq, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 10/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2023

Reference Information

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4000-1

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