SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : xwayland (SUSE-SU-2024:0114-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 189147

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0114-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-6816: Fixed heap buffer overflow in DeviceFocusEvent and ProcXIQueryPointer (bsc#1218582)
- CVE-2024-0229: Fixed reattaching to different master device may lead to out-of-bounds memory access (bsc#1218583)
- CVE-2024-21885: Fixed heap buffer overflow in XISendDeviceHierarchyEvent (bsc#1218584)
- CVE-2024-21886: Fixed heap buffer overflow in DisableDevice (bsc#1218585)

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 xwayland and / or xwayland-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 189147

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0114-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/18/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.82

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-6816

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xwayland, 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: 1/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6816, CVE-2024-0229, CVE-2024-21885, CVE-2024-21886

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0114-1

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