SUSE SLES15 Security Update : openssl-1_0_0 (SUSE-SU-2020:3762-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 144137

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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 :

CVE-2020-1971: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in EDIPARTYNAME (bsc#1179491).

Initialized dh->nid to NID_undef in DH_new_method() (bsc#1177673).

Fixed a test failure in apache_ssl in fips mode (bsc#1177793).

Renamed BN_get_rfc3526_prime_* functions back to get_rfc3526_prime_* (bsc#1177575).

Restored private key check in EC_KEY_check_key (bsc#1177479).

Added shared secret KAT to FIPS DH selftest (bsc#1176029).

Included ECDH/DH Requirements from SP800-56Arev3 (bsc#1176029).

Used SHA-2 in the RSA pairwise consistency check (bsc#1155346)

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 15 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2020-3762=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2020-3762=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 15-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-15-SP3-2020-3762=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-15-SP2-2020-3762=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 15-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-15-SP1-2020-3762=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-6-2020-3762=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155346

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176029

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177479

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177575

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177673

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177793

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179491

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1971/

http://www.nessus.org/u?4dcb01ab

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 144137

File Name: suse_SU-2020-3762-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/14/2020

Updated: 12/5/2022

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: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1971

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl10-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-1_0_0-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-1_0_0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl10, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, 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: 12/11/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1971

IAVA: 2020-A-0566-S