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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : openldap2 (SUSE-SU-2020:2581-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 140479

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for openldap2 fixes the following issues :

bsc#1174154 - CVE-2020-15719 - This resolves an issue with x509 SAN's falling back to CN validation in violation of rfc6125.

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 Module for Legacy Software 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-15-SP2-2020-2581=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 15-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-15-SP1-2020-2581=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP2-2020-2581=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP1-2020-2581=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2020-2581=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2020-2581=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174154

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15719/

http://www.nessus.org/u?4c8ab4ba

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 140479

File Name: suse_SU-2020-2581-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/10/2020

Updated: 1/13/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15719

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.2

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldap-2_4-2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-back-perl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-back-perl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldap-2_4, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldap-2_4-2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-ppolicy-check-password-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-ppolicy-check-password, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-back-meta, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-back-meta-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldap-2_4-2-32bit-debuginfo

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: 9/9/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15719