Upstream information

CVE-2021-32556 at MITRE

Description

It was discovered that the get_modified_conffiles() function in backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py allowed injecting modified package names in a manner that would confuse the dpkg(1) call.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having low severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 2.1
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 3.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1187307 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3 apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3 apport-crashdb-sle Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 apport-crashdb-sle Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS apport-crashdb-sle Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 apport-crashdb-sle Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS apport-crashdb-sle Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS apport Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS apport-crashdb-sle Not affected

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sat Jun 12 11:10:57 2021
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 21:22:01 2023