SUSE SLES15 Security Update : guava (SUSE-SU-2024:1138-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 193063

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1138-1 advisory.

- Upgrade to guava from v30.1.1 to v32.0.1
- CVE-2023-2976: Fixed Predictable temporary files and directories used in FileBackedOutputStream.
(bsc#1212401)
- CVE-2020-8908: Fixed a bug that could allow an attacker with access to the machine to potentially access data in a temporary directory created by the Guava. (bsc#1179926)

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 guava package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179926

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1212401

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-April/034884.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8908

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2976

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 193063

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1138-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/9/2024

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.59

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8908

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2976

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 4/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8908, CVE-2023-2976

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1138-1