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SUSE SLED12 Security Update : libtomcrypt (SUSE-SU-2019:3095-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 131556

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for libtomcrypt fixes the following issues :

CVE-2019-17362: Fixed an improper detection of invalid UTF-8 sequences that could have led to DoS or information disclosure via crafted DER-encoded data (bsc#1153433).

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 Workstation Extension 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP5-2019-3095=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP4-2019-3095=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-3095=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153433

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17362/

http://www.nessus.org/u?e5cb166f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 131556

File Name: suse_SU-2019-3095-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/3/2019

Updated: 4/8/2024

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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17362

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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:libtomcrypt0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtomcrypt0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtomcrypt-debugsource

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: 11/28/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17362