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openSUSE Security Update : profanity (openSUSE-2017-285)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97315

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for profanity fixes the following issues :

Changes in profanity :

 - CVE-2017-5592: The incorrect message carbons implementation that could allow user impersonification was fixed (boo#1024696)

Solution

Update the affected profanity packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024696

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97315

File Name: openSUSE-2017-285.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/22/2017

Updated: 12/31/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5592

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:profanity-mini-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:profanity, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:profanity-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:profanity-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:profanity-standard, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:profanity-standard-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:profanity-mini

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: 2/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5592