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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openssl-1_0_0 (SUSE-SU-2019:2504-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 129528

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for openssl-1_0_0 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 Bleichenbacher attack against cms/pkcs7 encryption transported key (bsc#1150250)

In addition fixed invalid curve attacks by validating that an EC point lies on the curve (bsc#1131291).

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 Software Development Kit 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-2504=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-2504=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-2504=1

See Also

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

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?501bfe00

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 129528

File Name: suse_SU-2019-2504-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/2/2019

Updated: 5/19/2022

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-1_0_0-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-1_0_0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl-1_0_0-devel

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: 10/1/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2019

Reference Information

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