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openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2019:2200-1 Important: nmap Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This release includes crucial improvements for nmap on openSUSE Leap 15.1, outlining the severity of the fixes and the specific issues that have been addressed.
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.

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security advisory denial of service security issue software update important nmap openSUSE Leap

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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2200=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

ncat-7.70-lp151.3.9.1

ncat-debuginfo-7.70-lp151.3.9.1

ndiff-7.70-lp151.3.9.1

nmap-7.70-lp151.3.9.1

nmap-debuginfo-7.70-lp151.3.9.1

nmap-debugsource-7.70-lp151.3.9.1

nping-7.70-lp151.3.9.1

nping-debuginfo-7.70-lp151.3.9.1

zenmap-7.70-lp151.3.9.1

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-2019:2200-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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security advisory denial of service security issue software update important nmap openSUSE Leap

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