SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openssl (SUSE-SU-2019:1553-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 126046

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for openssl fixes the following issues :

CVE-2018-0732: Reject excessively large primes in DH key generation (bsc#1097158)

CVE-2018-0734: Timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation (bsc#1113652)

CVE-2018-0737: Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation (bsc#1089039)

CVE-2018-5407: Elliptic curve scalar multiplication timing attack defenses (fixes 'PortSmash') (bsc#1113534)

CVE-2019-1559: Fix 0-byte record padding oracle via SSL_shutdown (bsc#1127080)

Fix One&Done side-channel attack on RSA (bsc#1104789)

Reject invalid EC point coordinates (bsc#1131291)

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

Add missing error string to CVE-2016-8610 fix (bsc#1110018#c9)

blinding enhancements for ECDSA and DSA (bsc#1097624, bsc#1098592)

Non security fixes: correct the error detection in the fips patch (bsc#1106197)

Add openssl(cli) Provide so the packages that require the openssl binary can require this instead of the new openssl meta package (bsc#1101470)

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 Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2019-1553=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089039

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097158

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097624

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098592

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101470

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104789

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106197

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110018

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113534

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113652

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

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131291

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8610/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0732/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0734/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0737/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5407/

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?ce5eebf3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 126046

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1553-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/19/2019

Updated: 12/5/2022

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: 3.4

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: 5.3

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:P/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: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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8610, CVE-2018-0732, CVE-2018-0734, CVE-2018-0737, CVE-2018-5407, CVE-2019-1559