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openSUSE Security Update : Botan (openSUSE-2021-765)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 149882

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for Botan fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2021-24115 In Botan before 2.17.3, or this backport, constant-time computations are not used for certain decoding and encoding operations (boo#1182670)

Solution

Update the affected Botan packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182670

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 149882

File Name: openSUSE-2021-765.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/25/2021

Updated: 12/29/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-24115

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbotan-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:botan-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbotan-2-10, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbotan-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbotan-2-10-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbotan-2-10-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:botan-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-botan, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:botan, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbotan-2-10-32bit

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: 5/22/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-24115