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openSUSE Security Update : mbedtls (openSUSE-2017-372)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97905

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update to mbedtls 1.3.19 fixes security issues and bugs.

The following vulnerability was fixed :

CVE-2017-2784: A remote user could have used a specially crafted certificate to cause mbedtls to free a buffer allocated on the stack when verifying the validity of public key with a secp224k1 curve, which could have allowed remote code execution on some platforms (boo#1029017)

The following non-security changes are included :

 - Add checks to prevent signature forgeries for very large messages while using RSA through the PK module in 64-bit systems.

 - Fixed potential livelock during the parsing of a CRL in PEM format

Solution

Update the affected mbedtls packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029017

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97905

File Name: openSUSE-2017-372.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/23/2017

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmbedtls9-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmbedtls9, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmbedtls9-debuginfo-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mbedtls-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmbedtls9-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mbedtls-debugsource

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2784