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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : wpa_supplicant (SUSE-SU-2021:1166-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 148501

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for wpa_supplicant fixes the following issues :

CVE-2021-30004: Fixed an issue where forging attacks might have occured because AlgorithmIdentifier parameters are mishandled in tls/pkcs1.c and tls/x509v3.c (bsc#1184348).

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 MicroOS 5.0 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.0-2021-1166=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-1166=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184348

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-30004/

http://www.nessus.org/u?2ebc69a9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 148501

File Name: suse_SU-2021-1166-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/14/2021

Updated: 1/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-30004

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wpa_supplicant-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wpa_supplicant-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:wpa_supplicant

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: 4/13/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-30004