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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : gnutls (SUSE-SU-2024:1271-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200075

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1271-2 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-28834: Fixed side-channel in the deterministic ECDSA (bsc#1221746)
 - CVE-2024-28835: Fixed denial of service during certificate chain verification (bsc#1221747)

 Other fixes:
 - jitterentropy: Release the memory of the entropy collector when using jitterentropy with phtreads as there is also a pre-intitization done in the main thread (bsc#1221242)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1221242

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1221746

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1221747

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-June/035473.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-28834

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-28835

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200075

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1271-2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/4/2024

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-28834

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/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:libgnutls30-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgnutls30-hmac-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgnutls30-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgnutls30, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgnutlsxx-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgnutlsxx28

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: 6/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-28834, CVE-2024-28835

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1271-2