SUSE SLES11 Security Update : opensc (SUSE-SU-2021:14835-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 154740

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:14835-1 advisory.

- CVE-2021-42780: Fixed use after return in insert_pin() (bsc#1192005).
- CVE-2021-42782: Stack buffer overflow issues in various places (bsc#1191957).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libopensc2, libopensc2-32bit, opensc and / or opensc-32bit packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 154740

File Name: suse_SU-2021-14835-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/30/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-42782

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopensc2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opensc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopensc2-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opensc-32bit

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: 10/29/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42780, CVE-2021-42782

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:14835-1

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