openSUSE Security Update : openssh (openSUSE-2018-1419)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119024

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for openssh fixes the following issues :

- CVE-2018-15919: Remotely observable behaviour in auth-gss2.c in OpenSSH could be used by remote attackers to detect existence of users on a target system when GSS2 is in use. OpenSSH developers do not want to treat such a username enumeration (or 'oracle') as a vulnerability. (bsc#1106163)

- CVE-2018-15473: OpenSSH was prone to a user existance oracle vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet containing the request has been fully parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c.
(bsc#1105010)

The following non-security issues were fixed :

- Stop leaking File descriptors (bsc#964336)

- sftp-client.c returns wrong error code upon failure (bsc#1091396)

- added pam_keyinit to pam configuration file (bsc#1081947)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected openssh packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1081947

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1091396

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1105010

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1106163

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=964336

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119024

File Name: openSUSE-2018-1419.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/19/2018

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-askpass-gnome, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-askpass-gnome-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-cavs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-cavs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-fips, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-helpers, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssh-helpers-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0

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: 11/16/2018

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15473, CVE-2018-15919