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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : openssl-3 (SUSE-SU-2024:3871-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210104

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3871-1 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 libopenssl-3-devel, libopenssl3 and / or openssl-3 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1230698

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1220262

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?4fb99d59

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210104

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3871-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/2/2024

Updated: 11/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl-3-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl3, 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: 11/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2024

Reference Information

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

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3871-1