SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : yubico-piv-tool (SUSE-SU-2019:1123-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 124455

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for yubico-piv-tool fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

Fixed an buffer overflow and an out of bounds memory read in ykpiv_transfer_data(), which could be triggered by a malicious token.
(CVE-2018-14779, bsc#1104809, YSA-2018-03)

Fixed an buffer overflow and an out of bounds memory read in
_ykpiv_fetch_object(), which could be triggered by a malicious token.
(CVE-2018-14780, bsc#1104811, YSA-2018-03)

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 Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-1123=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 124455

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1123-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/1/2019

Updated: 5/30/2024

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14779

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libykpiv1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libykcs11-1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:yubico-piv-tool-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libykcs11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libykpiv1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:yubico-piv-tool, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libykcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libykpiv-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:yubico-piv-tool-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: 4/30/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14779, CVE-2018-14780

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