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CentOS 7 : opensc (CESA-2019:2154)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 128365

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for opensc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The OpenSC set of libraries and utilities provides support for working with smart cards. OpenSC focuses on cards that support cryptographic operations and enables their use for authentication, mail encryption, or digital signatures.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:
opensc (0.19.0). (BZ#1656791)

Security Fix(es) :

* opensc: Buffer overflows handling responses from Muscle Cards in card-muscle.c:muscle_list_files() (CVE-2018-16391)

* opensc: Buffer overflows handling responses from TCOS Cards in card-tcos.c:tcos_select_file() (CVE-2018-16392)

* opensc: Buffer overflows handling responses from Gemsafe V1 Smartcards in pkcs15-gemsafeV1.c:gemsafe_get_cert_len() (CVE-2018-16393)

* opensc: Buffer overflow handling string concatention in tools/ util.c:util_acl_to_str() (CVE-2018-16418)

* opensc: Buffer overflow handling responses from Cryptoflex cards in cryptoflex-tool.c:read_public_key() (CVE-2018-16419)

* opensc: Buffer overflows handling responses from ePass 2003 Cards in card-epass2003.c:decrypt_response() (CVE-2018-16420)

* opensc: Buffer overflows handling responses from CAC Cards in card-cac.c:cac_get_serial_nr_from_CUID() (CVE-2018-16421)

* opensc: Buffer overflow handling responses from esteid cards in pkcs15-esteid.c:sc_pkcs15emu_esteid_init() (CVE-2018-16422)

* opensc: Double free handling responses from smartcards in libopensc/ sc.c:sc_file_set_sec_attr() (CVE-2018-16423)

* opensc: Out of bounds reads handling responses from smartcards (CVE-2018-16427)

* opensc: Infinite recusrion handling responses from IAS-ECC cards in card-iasecc.c:iasecc_select_file() (CVE-2018-16426)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected opensc package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8bcb4682

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 128365

File Name: centos_RHSA-2019-2154.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/30/2019

Updated: 5/19/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2018-16423

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16393

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:opensc, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/3/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16391, CVE-2018-16392, CVE-2018-16393, CVE-2018-16418, CVE-2018-16419, CVE-2018-16420, CVE-2018-16421, CVE-2018-16422, CVE-2018-16423, CVE-2018-16426, CVE-2018-16427

RHSA: 2019:2154