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openSUSE Security Update : openssh (openSUSE-2019-1602)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 126227

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for openssh fixes the following issues :

Security vulnerabilities addressed :

 - CVE-2019-6109: Fixed an character encoding issue in the progress display of the scp client that could be used to manipulate client output, allowing for spoofing during file transfers (bsc#1121816).

 - CVE-2019-6111: Properly validate object names received by the scp client to prevent arbitrary file overwrites when interacting with a malicious SSH server (bsc#1121821).

Other issues fixed :

 - Fixed two race conditions in sshd relating to SIGHUP (bsc#1119183).

 - Returned proper reason for port forwarding failures (bsc#1090671).

 - Fixed a double free() in the KDF CAVS testing tool (bsc#1065237).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected openssh packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065237

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1090671

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1119183

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1121816

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1121821

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1131709

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 126227

File Name: openSUSE-2019-1602.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/25/2019

Updated: 5/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6111

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6109

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-askpass-gnome, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-askpass-gnome-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-fips, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-cavs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-helpers-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-cavs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-helpers

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6109, CVE-2019-6111