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RHEL 8 : opensc (RHSA-2020:4483)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 142399
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4483 advisory.The OpenSC set of libraries and utilities provides support for working with smart cards. OpenSC focuses on cards that support cryptographic operations and enables their use for authentication, mail encryption, or digital signatures.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: opensc (0.20.0). (BZ#1810660)
Security Fix(es):
* opensc: Out-of-bounds access of an ASN.1 Bitstring in decode_bit_string in libopensc/asn1.c (CVE-2019-15945)
* opensc: Out-of-bounds access of an ASN.1 Octet string in asn1_decode_entry in libopensc/asn1.c (CVE-2019-15946)
* opensc: Improper handling of buffer limits for CAC certificates (CVE-2019-19481)
* opensc: Double free in coolkey_free_private_data in libopensc/card-coolkey.c (CVE-2019-20792)
* opensc: Incorrect read operation during parsing of a SETCOS file attribute (CVE-2019-19479)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the affected opensc package.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?44b830f6
http://www.nessus.org/u?9158a225
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4483
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1765222
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1765229
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1782519
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1782955
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1810660
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 142399
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4483.nasl
Version: 1.12
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 11/4/2020
Updated: 11/7/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.6
Temporal Score: 3.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-20792
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 6.1
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opensc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2019
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2019-15945, CVE-2019-15946, CVE-2019-19479, CVE-2019-19481, CVE-2019-20792