SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openldap2 (SUSE-SU-2016:0224-1) (Logjam)

low Nessus Plugin ID 88176

Synopsis

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

Description

This update fixes the following security issues :

- CVE-2015-6908: The ber_get_next function allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reachable assertion and application crash) via crafted BER data, as demonstrated by an attack against slapd. (bsc#945582)

- CVE-2015-4000: Fix weak Diffie-Hellman size vulnerability. (bsc#937766)

It also fixes the following non-security bugs :

- bsc#955210: Unresponsive LDAP host lookups in IPv6 environment

This update adds the following functionality :

- fate#319300: SHA2 password hashing module that can be loaded on-demand.

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-SP1-2016-139=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2016-139=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2016-139=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-139=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-139=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-12-2016-139=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-139=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2016-139=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=937766

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=945582

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955210

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4000/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6908/

http://www.nessus.org/u?d52655d8

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 88176

File Name: suse_SU-2016-0224-1.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/26/2016

Updated: 12/5/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: 3.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:compat-libldap-2_3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:compat-libldap-2_3-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldap-2_4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldap-2_4-2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldap-2_4-2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-back-meta, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-back-meta-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-client-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4000, CVE-2015-6908

BID: 74733