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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : compat-libgcrypt11 (SUSE-SU-2017:1866-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120001

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for libgcrypt fixes the following security issue :

 - CVE-2017-7526: Hardening against local side-channel attack. (bsc#1046607)

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 Module for Legacy Software 12:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-12-2017-1157=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046607

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7526/

http://www.nessus.org/u?247d4ba5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120001

File Name: suse_SU-2017-1866-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/2/2019

Updated: 7/11/2024

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: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7526

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:compat-libgcrypt11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:compat-libgcrypt11-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:compat-libgcrypt11-debuginfo

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: 7/14/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7526