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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openvpn (SUSE-SU-2017:1622-1) (SWEET32)
high Nessus Plugin ID 100951
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for openvpn fixes the following issues :- CVE-2016-6329: Show which ciphers should no longer be used in openvpn
--show-ciphers (bsc#995374)
- CVE-2017-7478: openvpn: Authenticated user can DoS server by using a big payload in P_CONTROL (bsc#1038709)
- CVE-2017-7479: openvpn: Denial of Service due to Exhaustion of Packet-ID counter (bsc#1038711)
- Hardening measures found by internal audit (bsc#1038713)
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-998=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-998=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-998=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038709
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038711
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038713
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995374
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6329/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7478/
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 100951
File Name: suse_SU-2017-1622-1.nasl
Version: 3.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 6/21/2017
Updated: 12/5/2022
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-auth-pam-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-auth-pam-plugin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/20/2017
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2017