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openSUSE Security Update : pax-utils (openSUSE-2017-332)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97714

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for pax-utils fixes the following issues :

 - bsc#1026959: out of bounds read in scanelf could have unspecified impact

pax-utils was updated to 1.2.2, fixing missing miscellaneous fd and memory leak issues.

Solution

Update the affected pax-utils packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1026959

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97714

File Name: openSUSE-2017-332.nasl

Version: 3.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: 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:opensuse:42.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pax-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pax-utils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pax-utils

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2017