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.

- A use after return issue was found in Opensc before version 0.22.0 in insert_pin function that could potentially crash programs using the library. (CVE-2021-42780)

- Stack buffer overflow issues were found in Opensc before version 0.22.0 in various places that could potentially crash programs using the library. (CVE-2021-42782)

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191957

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192005

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42780

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42782

http://www.nessus.org/u?7884cfce

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 154740

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

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2021

Updated: 7/13/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

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

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