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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openssl (SUSE-SU-2019:2397-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 129044

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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 :

OpenSSL Security Advisory [10 September 2019]

CVE-2019-1547: Added EC_GROUP_set_generator side channel attack avoidance. (bsc#1150003)

CVE-2019-1563: Fixed a Bleichenbacher attack against cms/pkcs7 encryption transported key (bsc#1150250)

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 for SAP 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2019-2397=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2019-2397=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150003

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150250

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1547/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1563/

http://www.nessus.org/u?780c154c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 129044

File Name: suse_SU-2019-2397-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/19/2019

Updated: 5/19/2022

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: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1563

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1547

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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1547, CVE-2019-1563