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openSUSE 15 Security Update : libcryptopp (openSUSE-SU-2021:3301-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 153909

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:3301-1 advisory.

 - Crypto++ (aka cryptopp and libcrypto++) 5.6.4 contained a bug in its ASN.1 BER decoding routine. The library will allocate a memory block based on the length field of the ASN.1 object. If there is not enough content octets in the ASN.1 object, then the function will fail and the memory block will be zeroed even if its unused. There is a noticeable delay during the wipe for a large allocation. (CVE-2016-9939)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libcryptopp-devel, libcryptopp5_6_5 and / or libcryptopp5_6_5-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1015243

http://www.nessus.org/u?c77db7cb

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9939

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 153909

File Name: openSUSE-2021-3301.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2021

Updated: 10/7/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9939

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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:opensuse:libcryptopp5_6_5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcryptopp5_6_5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcryptopp-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.3

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: 10/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9939