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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : openssl-3 (SUSE-SU-2024:1947-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200236

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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-2024:1947-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-2511: Fixed unconstrained session cache growth in TLSv1.3 (bsc#1222548).
 - CVE-2024-4603: Fixed DSA parameter checks for excessive sizes before validating (bsc#1224388).

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 libopenssl-3-devel, libopenssl3 and / or openssl-3 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1222548

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1224388

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-June/035495.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2511

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-4603

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200236

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1947-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/8/2024

Updated: 6/8/2024

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: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2511

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl-3-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl3, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-3

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: 6/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2511, CVE-2024-4603

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1947-1