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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : opensc (SUSE-SU-2021:0998-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 148269

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for opensc fixes the following issues :

CVE-2020-26571: gemsafe GPK smart card software driver stack-based buffer overflow (bsc#1177380)

CVE-2019-15946: out-of-bounds access of an ASN.1 Octet string in asn1_decode_entry (bsc#1149747)

CVE-2019-15945: out-of-bounds access of an ASN.1 Bitstring in decode_bit_string (bsc#1149746)

CVE-2019-19479: incorrect read operation during parsing of a SETCOS file attribute (bsc#1158256)

CVE-2020-26572: Prevent out of bounds write (bsc#1177378)

CVE-2020-26570: Fix buffer overflow in sc_oberthur_read_file (bsc#1177364)

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 12-SP5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2021-998=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149746

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149747

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158256

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177364

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177378

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177380

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15945/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15946/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19479/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26570/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26571/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26572/

http://www.nessus.org/u?ed15db6a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 148269

File Name: suse_SU-2021-0998-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2021

Updated: 1/8/2024

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15946

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opensc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opensc-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opensc

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: 3/31/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15945, CVE-2019-15946, CVE-2019-19479, CVE-2020-26570, CVE-2020-26571, CVE-2020-26572