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openSUSE: 2019:2198-1 Important: Nmap Denial Of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Crucial patch released for openSUSE nmap, tackling denial of service vulnerabilities and several other high-severity concerns.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for nmap fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2017-18594: Fixed a denial of service condition due to a double free

when an SSH connection fails. (bsc#1148742)

Non-security issue fixed:

- Fixed a regression in the version scanner caused, by the fix for

CVE-2018-15173. (bsc#1135350)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2198=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

ncat-7.70-lp150.2.9.1

ncat-debuginfo-7.70-lp150.2.9.1

ndiff-7.70-lp150.2.9.1

nmap-7.70-lp150.2.9.1

nmap-debuginfo-7.70-lp150.2.9.1

nmap-debugsource-7.70-lp150.2.9.1

nping-7.70-lp150.2.9.1

nping-debuginfo-7.70-lp150.2.9.1

zenmap-7.70-lp150.2.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18594.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15173.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1135350

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1148742

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2198-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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