openSUSE 15 Security Update : cryptsetup (openSUSE-SU-2022:0144-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 156942

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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-2022:0144-1 advisory.

- It was found that a specially crafted LUKS header could trick cryptsetup into disabling encryption during the recovery of the device. An attacker with physical access to the medium, such as a flash disk, could use this flaw to force a user into permanently disabling the encryption layer of that medium.
(CVE-2021-4122)

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 156942

File Name: openSUSE-2022-0144-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/21/2022

Updated: 3/21/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4122

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cryptsetup, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cryptsetup-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcryptsetup12, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcryptsetup12-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcryptsetup-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcryptsetup12-hmac-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libcryptsetup12-32bit

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: 1/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-4122

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