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openSUSE Security Update : gnugk (openSUSE-2016-897)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 92538

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

gnugk was updated fix security issues and bugs.

The following issues were fixed :

 - CVE-2012-3534: denial of service via lots of connections (boo#777486)

The new version 4.2 of gnuk also fixes a number of bugs and contains other improvements and fixes. The new library h323plus was added to the distribution as a dependency.

Solution

Update the affected gnugk packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777486

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 92538

File Name: openSUSE-2016-897.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/25/2016

Updated: 1/30/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3534

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnugk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnugk, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libh323-1_26_5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:h323plus-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libh323-1_26_5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:h323plus-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gnugk-debugsource

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3534