SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libgcrypt (SUSE-SU-2016:1089-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 90587

Synopsis

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

Description

libgcrypt was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed :

- CVE-2015-7511: Side-channel attack on ECDH with Weierstrass curves (bsc#965902).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2016-636=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2016-636=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-636=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-636=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-636=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2016-636=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965902

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7511/

http://www.nessus.org/u?8479728c

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 90587

File Name: suse_SU-2016-1089-1.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/19/2016

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2

Temporal Score: 1.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgcrypt20-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgcrypt20, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgcrypt-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgcrypt20-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7511