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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : Recommended update for libksba (SUSE-SU-2015:2056-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 87643

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Synopsis

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

Description

The libksba package was updated to fix the following security issues :

 - Fixed an integer overflow, an out of bounds read and a stack overflow issues (bsc#926826).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2015-869=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2015-869=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2015-869=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=926826

http://www.nessus.org/u?86a3265d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87643

File Name: suse_SU-2015-2056-2.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/29/2015

Updated: 4/2/2025

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libksba-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libksba8-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libksba8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 12/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2015