SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:3640-2)
🗓️ 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AGType
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.4.2018.3640.2");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-10209", "CVE-2016-10349", "CVE-2016-10350", "CVE-2017-14166", "CVE-2017-14501", "CVE-2017-14502", "CVE-2017-14503");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-04-19 00:00:00 +0000 (Mon, 19 Apr 2021)");
script_version("2025-08-15T15:42:25+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-08-15 15:42:25 +0000 (Fri, 15 Aug 2025)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-09-20 17:57:22 +0000 (Wed, 20 Sep 2017)");
script_name("SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:3640-2)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
script_family("SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/suse_sles", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=(SLES12\.0SP4)");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"SUSE-SU-2018:3640-2");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20183640-2.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1032089");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1037008");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1037009");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1057514");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059100");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059134");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059139");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2018-December/004927.html");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'libarchive' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2018:3640-2 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This update for libarchive fixes the following issues:
- CVE-2016-10209: The archive_wstring_append_from_mbs function in archive_string.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted archive file. (bsc#1032089)
- CVE-2016-10349: The archive_le32dec function in archive_endian.h allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted file. (bsc#1037008)
- CVE-2016-10350: The archive_read_format_cab_read_header function in archive_read_support_format_cab.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted file. (bsc#1037009)
- CVE-2017-14166: libarchive allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (xml_data heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted xar archive, related to the mishandling of empty strings in the atol8 function in archive_read_support_format_xar.c. (bsc#1057514)
- CVE-2017-14501: An out-of-bounds read flaw existed in parse_file_info in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c when extracting a specially crafted iso9660 iso file, related to archive_read_format_iso9660_read_header. (bsc#1059139)
- CVE-2017-14502: read_header in archive_read_support_format_rar.c suffered from an off-by-one error for UTF-16 names in RAR archives, leading to an out-of-bounds read in archive_read_format_rar_read_header. (bsc#1059134)
- CVE-2017-14503: libarchive suffered from an out-of-bounds read within lha_read_data_none() in archive_read_support_format_lha.c when extracting a specially crafted lha archive, related to lha_crc16. (bsc#1059100)");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'libarchive' package(s) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12-SP4.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "SLES12.0SP4") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libarchive13", rpm:"libarchive13~3.1.2~26.3.1", rls:"SLES12.0SP4"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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