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RHEL 9 : opensc (RHSA-2024:0966)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 190988

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for opensc.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0966 advisory.

 The OpenSC set of libraries and utilities provides support for working with smart cards. OpenSC focuses on cards that support cryptographic operations and enables their use for authentication, mail encryption, or digital signatures.

 Security Fix(es):

 * OpenSC: Side-channel leaks while stripping encryption PKCS#1 padding (CVE-2023-5992)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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 RHEL opensc package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:0966.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d26c1255

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248685

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0966

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 190988

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0966.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/26/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5992

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opensc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5992

CWE: 203

RHSA: 2024:0966