SUSE SLES12 Security Update : giflib (SUSE-SU-2024:1622-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 196941

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1622-1 advisory.

- CVE-2018-11490: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in DGifDecompressLine() (bsc#1094832)
- CVE-2021-40633: Fixed a denial of service from excessive memory (bsc#1200551)

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 giflib-devel, giflib-progs, libgif6 and / or libgif6-32bit packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 196941

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1622-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2024

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11490

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-40633

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:giflib-progs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgif6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:giflib-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgif6-32bit

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: 5/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11490, CVE-2021-40633

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1622-1

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