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openSUSE Security Update : dropbear (openSUSE-SU-2013:1616-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 75182

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

dropbear was updated to version 2013.60 to fix following bugs :

 - Fix 'make install' so that it doesn't always install to /bin and /sbin

 - Fix 'make install MULTI=1', installing manpages failed

 - Fix 'make install' when scp is included since it has no manpage

 - Make --disable-bundled-libtom work

 - used as bug fix release for bnc#845306 - VUL-0:
 CVE-2013-4421 and CVE-2013-4434

 - provided links for download sources

 - employed gpg-offline - verify sources

- imported upstream version 2013.59

 - Fix crash from -J command Thanks to Lluís Batlle i Rossell and Arnaud Mouiche for patches

 - Avoid reading too much from /proc/net/rt_cache since that causes system slowness.

- Improve EOF handling for half-closed connections Thanks to Catalin Patulea

 - Send a banner message to report PAM error messages intended for the user Patch from Martin Donnelly

 - Limit the size of decompressed payloads, avoids memory exhaustion denial of service Thanks to Logan Lamb for reporting and investigating it

 - Avoid disclosing existence of valid users through inconsistent delays Thanks to Logan Lamb for reporting

 - Update config.guess and config.sub for newer architectures

 - Avoid segfault in server for locked accounts

 - 'make install' now installs manpages dropbearkey.8 has been renamed to dropbearkey.1 manpage added for dropbearconvert

 - Get rid of one second delay when running non-interactive commands

Solution

Update the affected dropbear packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845306

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00061.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 75182

File Name: openSUSE-2013-811.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dropbear-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dropbear-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dropbear, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4421, CVE-2013-4434

BID: 62958, 62993