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openSUSE 15 Security Update : Botan (openSUSE-SU-2024:0343-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 209976

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2024:0343-1 advisory.

 - Fixed CVE-2024-50382, CVE-2024-50383 - various compiler-induced side channel in GHASH when certain LLVM/GCC versions are used to compile Botan.

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/1232296

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232297

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232300

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232301

http://www.nessus.org/u?c80ef59c

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50382

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50383

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 209976

File Name: openSUSE-2024-0343-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/31/2024

Updated: 10/31/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-50383

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbotan-2-19, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbotan-2-19-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbotan-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbotan-2-19-64bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbotan-devel-64bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbotan-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-botan, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:botan

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: 10/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-50382, CVE-2024-50383