SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : openCryptoki (SUSE-SU-2024:1447-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194460

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1447-1 advisory.

- A timing side-channel vulnerability has been discovered in the opencryptoki package while processing RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 padded ciphertexts. This flaw could potentially enable unauthorized RSA ciphertext decryption or signing, even without access to the corresponding private key. (CVE-2024-0914)

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 openCryptoki, openCryptoki-64bit and / or openCryptoki-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1219217

http://www.nessus.org/u?a3f305e8

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0914

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194460

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1447-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2024

Updated: 4/29/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-0914

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opencryptoki-64bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opencryptoki, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opencryptoki-devel

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: 4/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-0914

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1447-1