SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openssl (SUSE-SU-2017:2981-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 104530

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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: Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2017-3735: Malformed X.509 IPAdressFamily could cause OOB read (bsc#1056058)

- adjust DEFAULT_SUSE to meet 1.0.2 and current state (bsc#1027908)

- out of bounds read+crash in DES_fcrypt (bsc#1065363)

- DEFAULT_SUSE cipher list is missing ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers (bsc#1055825)

- Missing important ciphers in openssl 1.0.1i-47.1 (bsc#990592) Bug fixes :

- support alternate root ca chains (bsc#1032261)

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 OpenStack Cloud 6:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-6-2017-1846=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2017-1846=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2017-1846=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027908

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032261

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055825

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056058

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065363

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990592

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3735/

http://www.nessus.org/u?35d8eec1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 104530

File Name: suse_SU-2017-2981-1.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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: 11/10/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-3735