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SUSE 2023 1987 2 Critical OpenSSL Vulnerability and Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2022
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SUSE Security Update addresses severe vulnerabilities in clamav, enhancing defenses against potential memory and buffer attacks.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for clamav fixes the following issues: - CVE-2022-20770: Fixed a possible infinite loop vulnerability in the CHM file parser (bsc#1199242). - CVE-2022-20796: Fixed a possible NULL-pointer dereference crash in the scan verdict cache check (bsc#1199246). - CVE-2022-20771: Fixed a possible infinite loop vulnerability in the TIFF file parser (bsc#1199244). - CVE-2022-20785: Fixed a possible memory leak in the HTML file parser / Javascript normalizer (bsc#1199245). - CVE-2022-20792: Fixed a possible multi-byte heap buffer overflow write vulnerability in the signature database load module (bsc#1199274). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software update important memory leak Linux clamav

References

#1199242 #1199244 #1199245 #1199246 #1199274

Cross- CVE-2022-20770 CVE-2022-20771 CVE-2022-20785

CVE-2022-20792 CVE-2022-20796

CVSS scores:

CVE-2022-20770 (SUSE): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2022-20771 (SUSE): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2022-20785 (SUSE): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2022-20792 (SUSE): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2022-20796 (SUSE): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:1644-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software update important memory leak Linux clamav

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