SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : distribution (SUSE-SU-2023:4974-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 187313

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4974-1 advisory.

distribution was updated to 2.8.3 (bsc#1216491):

* Pass `BUILDTAGS` argument to `go build`
* Enable Go build tags
* `reference`: replace deprecated function `SplitHostname`
* Dont parse errors as JSON unless Content-Type is set to JSON
* update to go 1.20.8
* Set `Content-Type` header in registry client `ReadFrom`
* deprecate reference package, migrate to github.com/distribution/reference
* `digestset`: deprecate package in favor of `go-digest/digestset`
* Do not close HTTP request body in HTTP handler

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 distribution-registry package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 187313

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4974-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/27/2023

Updated: 6/25/2026

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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:distribution-registry

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: 12/26/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/26/2023

Reference Information

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4974-1

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