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

🗓️ 14 Mar 2017 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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The pax-utils package in openSUSE before version 1.2.2-5.1 and 1.2.2-6.1 could allow an out of bounds read with unspecified impact

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2017-332.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(97714);
  script_version("3.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : pax-utils (openSUSE-2017-332)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2017-332 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"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."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1026959"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected pax-utils packages."
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"Medium");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pax-utils");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pax-utils-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pax-utils-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/03/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/03/14");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE42\.1|SUSE42\.2)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "42.1 / 42.2", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);

flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"pax-utils-1.2.2-5.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"pax-utils-debuginfo-1.2.2-5.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"pax-utils-debugsource-1.2.2-5.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"pax-utils-1.2.2-6.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"pax-utils-debuginfo-1.2.2-6.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"pax-utils-debugsource-1.2.2-6.1") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "pax-utils / pax-utils-debuginfo / pax-utils-debugsource");
}

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