SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openssl (SUSE-SU-2019:0803-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 123547

Synopsis

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

Description

This update for openssl fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

The 9 Lives of Bleichenbacher's CAT: Cache Attacks on TLS Implementations (bsc#1117951)

CVE-2019-1559: Fixed OpenSSL 0-byte Record Padding Oracle which under certain circumstances a TLS server can be forced to respond differently to a client and lead to the decryption of the data (bsc#1127080).

Other issues addressed: Fixed IV handling in SHAEXT paths:
aes/asm/aesni-sha*-x86_64.pl (bsc#1113975).

Set TLS version to 0 in msg_callback for record messages to avoid confusing applications (bsc#1100078).

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2019-803=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2019-803=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-803=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-803=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-803=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2019-803=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2019-803=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-4-2019-803=1

SUSE CaaS Platform ALL :

To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform Velum dashboard. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.

SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 :

To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform Velum dashboard. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.

OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Magnum-Orchestration-7-2019-803=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1100078

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113975

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117951

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127080

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1559/

http://www.nessus.org/u?8aeb2df0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 123547

File Name: suse_SU-2019-0803-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2019

Updated: 6/6/2024

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: 4.4

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-2019-1559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/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:openssl-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0-hmac

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: 3/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1559