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openSUSE Security Update : bcm20702a1-firmware (openSUSE-2019-2477)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130938

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for bcm20702a1-firmware fixes the following issues :

Changes in bcm20702a1-firmware :

 - Use https to fetch the archive to avoid person-in-the-middle attacks (boo#1154083)

 - Fetch & install another variant firmware (0a5c:21e8) (boo#1087996)

Solution

Update the affected bcm20702a1-firmware package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087996

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1154083

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130938

File Name: openSUSE-2019-2477.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2019

Updated: 9/23/2020

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bcm20702a1-firmware

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/10/2019