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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : cups (SUSE-SU-2024:2002-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200463

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2002-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-35235: Fixed a bug in cupsd that could allow an attacker to change the permissions of other files in the system. (bsc#1225365)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1225365

http://www.nessus.org/u?2cfa2e7f

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-35235

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200463

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2002-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2024

Updated: 9/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-35235

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/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:suse_linux:cups-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-ddk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-libs

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: 6/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-35235

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2002-1