SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : wget (SUSE-SU-2016:3268-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96140

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for wget fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2016-7098: Fixed a potential race condition by creating files with .tmp ext and making them accessible to the current user only. (bsc#995964) Non security issues fixed :

- bsc#1005091: Don't call xfree() on string returned by usr_error()

- bsc#1012677: Add support for enforcing TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 (TLS 1.2 support was already present, but it was not enforcable).

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 for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2016-1911=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2016-1911=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-1911=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2016-1911=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-1911=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96140

File Name: suse_SU-2016-3268-1.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/27/2016

Updated: 1/7/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7098

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/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:wget-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wget, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wget-debuginfo

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: 12/23/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7098

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