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openSUSE Security Update : python-cryptography (openSUSE-2021-349)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 146898

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for python-cryptography fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2020-36242: Using the Fernet class to symmetrically encrypt multi gigabyte values could result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow (bsc#1182066).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected python-cryptography packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182066

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 146898

File Name: openSUSE-2021-349.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/1/2021

Updated: 1/18/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36242

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-cryptography-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-cryptography-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python2-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python2-cryptography-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-cryptography-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36242