SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : rpm (SUSE-SU-2024:1557-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 198236

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1557-2 advisory.

Security fixes:
- CVE-2021-3521: Fixed missing subkey binding signature checking (bsc#1191175)

Other fixes:

- accept more signature subpackets marked as critical (bsc#1218686)
- backport limit support for the autopatch macro (bsc#1189495)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 198236

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1557-2.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/31/2024

Updated: 6/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3521

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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:suse_linux:rpm-imaevmsign, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rpm-ndb, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rpm-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rpm-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:rpm-build, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-rpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python311-rpm, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 5/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3521

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1557-2

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