openSUSE Security Update : tboot (openSUSE-2017-1308)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104771

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for tboot fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2017-16837: Fix tbootfailed to validate a number of immutable function pointers, which could allow an attacker to bypass the chain of trust and execute arbitrary code (boo#1068390).

- Make tboot package compatible with OpenSSL 1.1.0 for SLE-15 support (boo#1067229).

Bug fixes :

- Update to new upstream version. See release notes for details (1.9.6; 1.9.5, FATE#321510; 1.9.4, FATE#320665;
1.8.3, FATE#318542) :

- https://sourceforge.net/p/tboot/code/ci/default/tree/CHANGELOG

- Fix some gcc7 warnings that lead to errors.
(boo#1041264)

- Fix wrong pvops kernel config matching (boo#981948)

- Fix a excessive stack usage pattern that could lead to resets/crashes (boo#967441)

- fixes a boot issue on Skylake (boo#964408)

- Trim filler words from description; use modern macros over shell vars.

- Add reproducible.patch to call gzip -n to make build fully reproducible.

Solution

Update the affected tboot packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104771

File Name: openSUSE-2017-1308.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/27/2017

Updated: 11/13/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16837

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:opensuse:tboot-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tboot, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tboot-debuginfo

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: 11/25/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16837

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