SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openssl (SUSE-SU-2016:2394-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 93765

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for openssl fixes the following issues: OpenSSL Security Advisory [22 Sep 2016] (bsc#999665) Severity: High

- OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304) (bsc#999666) Severity: Low

- Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour (CVE-2016-2177) (bsc#982575)

- Constant time flag not preserved in DSA signing (CVE-2016-2178) (bsc#983249)

- DTLS buffered message DoS (CVE-2016-2179) (bsc#994844)

- OOB read in TS_OBJ_print_bio() (CVE-2016-2180) (bsc#990419)

- DTLS replay protection DoS (CVE-2016-2181) (bsc#994749)

- OOB write in BN_bn2dec() (CVE-2016-2182) (bsc#993819)

- Birthday attack against 64-bit block ciphers (SWEET32) (CVE-2016-2183) (bsc#995359)

- Malformed SHA512 ticket DoS (CVE-2016-6302) (bsc#995324)

- OOB write in MDC2_Update() (CVE-2016-6303) (bsc#995377)

- Certificate message OOB reads (CVE-2016-6306) (bsc#999668) More information can be found on:
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160922.txt Also following bugs were fixed :

- update expired S/MIME certs (bsc#979475)

- improve s390x performance (bsc#982745)

- allow >= 64GB AESGCM transfers (bsc#988591)

- fix crash in print_notice (bsc#998190)

- resume reading from /dev/urandom when interrupted by a signal (bsc#995075)

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-SP1-2016-1393=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-1393=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-1393=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 93765

File Name: suse_SU-2016-2394-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/28/2016

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 9/27/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2177, CVE-2016-2178, CVE-2016-2179, CVE-2016-2180, CVE-2016-2181, CVE-2016-2182, CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-6302, CVE-2016-6303, CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-6306

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