SUSE SLES11 Security Update : wpa_supplicant (SUSE-SU-2017:2752-1) (KRACK)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 103920

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for wpa_supplicant fixes the following issues :

- Several vulnerabilities in standard conforming implementations of the WPA2 protocol have been discovered and published under the code name KRACK. This update remedies those issues in a backwards compatible manner, i.e. the updated wpa_supplicant can interface properly with both vulnerable and patched implementations of WPA2, but an attacker won't be able to exploit the KRACK weaknesses in those connections anymore even if the other party is still vulnerable.
[bsc#1056061, CVE-2017-13078, CVE-2017-13079, CVE-2017-13080, CVE-2017-13081, CVE-2017-13087, CVE-2017-13088]

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 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-wpa_supplicant-13318=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp3-wpa_supplicant-13318=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch sleposp3-wpa_supplicant-13318=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 103920

File Name: suse_SU-2017-2752-1.nasl

Version: 3.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/18/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.9

Temporal Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wpa_supplicant

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-13078, CVE-2017-13079, CVE-2017-13080, CVE-2017-13081, CVE-2017-13087, CVE-2017-13088

IAVA: 2017-A-0310

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