openSUSE 15 Security Update : optipng (openSUSE-SU-2023:0388-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186523

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2023:0388-1 advisory.

- OptiPNG v0.7.7 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via the 'buffer' variable at gifread.c.
(CVE-2023-43907)

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 optipng package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1215937

http://www.nessus.org/u?98cb2511

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-43907

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 186523

File Name: openSUSE-2023-0388-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/2/2023

Updated: 12/2/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43907

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:optipng, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.4

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: 12/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43907