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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : p11-kit (SUSE-SU-2022:2871-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 164371

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2871-1 advisory.

 - An issue was discovered in p11-kit 0.21.1 through 0.23.21. A heap-based buffer over-read has been discovered in the RPC protocol used by thep11-kit server/remote commands and the client library. When the remote entity supplies a byte array through a serialized PKCS#11 function call, the receiving entity may allow the reading of up to 4 bytes of memory past the heap allocation. (CVE-2020-29362)

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180065

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29362

http://www.nessus.org/u?1407fdfe

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 164371

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2871-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/24/2022

Updated: 7/14/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless 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:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-29362

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:L/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libp11-kit0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libp11-kit0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:p11-kit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:p11-kit-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:p11-kit-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:p11-kit-nss-trust, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:p11-kit-tools, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 8/23/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-29362

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2871-1