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SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : libksba (SUSE-SU-2016:0008-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 87731

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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 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-libksba-1482=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-libksba-1482=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-libksba-1482=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-libksba-1482=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-libksba-1482=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-libksba-1482=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-libksba-1482=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-libksba-1482=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-libksba-1482=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?7b376a8e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87731

File Name: suse_SU-2016-0008-1.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/5/2016

Updated: 1/6/2021

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:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libksba

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