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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ctags (SUSE-SU-2016:2097-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 93297

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for ctags fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2014-7204: Potential denial of service (infinite loop and CPU and disk consumption) via a crafted JavaScript file. (bsc#899486)

 - Missing Requires(post) on coreutils as it is using rm(1). (bsc#976920)

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 Server 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-1239=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-1239=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=899486

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976920

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7204/

http://www.nessus.org/u?e6ba9bca

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 93297

File Name: suse_SU-2016-2097-1.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/2/2016

Updated: 1/27/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-7204

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 8/18/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7204

BID: 70168