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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : openssl-3 (SUSE-SU-2024:3766-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 209895

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3766-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2023-50782: Implicit rejection in PKCS#1 v1.5 (bsc#1220262)
 - CVE-2024-41996: Avoid expensive public key validation for known safe-prime groups (DHEATATTACK) (bsc#1230698)

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/1220262

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1230698

http://www.nessus.org/u?90d40f7b

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-50782

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-41996

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 209895

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3766-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2024

Updated: 10/31/2024

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-50782

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: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: 10/29/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-50782, CVE-2024-41996

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3766-1