SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openssl-1_1 (SUSE-SU-2024:2953-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 205860

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2953-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-2511: Fixed a denial of service due to unbounded memory growth with session handling in TLSv1.3 (bsc#1222548)
- CVE-2024-5535: Fixed a buffer overread in function SSL_select_next_proto() with an empty supported client protocols buffer (bsc#1227138)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 205860

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2953-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/20/2024

Updated: 8/20/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-5535

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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-1_1-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl-1_1-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-1_1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_1-hmac-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_1-hmac, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_1

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: 8/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2511, CVE-2024-5535

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2953-1

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