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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : opensc (SUSE-SU-2022:1041-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 159349

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1041-1 advisory.

 Security issues fixed:

 - CVE-2021-42780: Fixed use after return in insert_pin() (bsc#1192005).
 - CVE-2021-42779: Fixed use after free in sc_file_valid() (bsc#1191992).
 - CVE-2021-42781: Fixed multiple heap buffer overflows in pkcs15-oberthur.c (bsc#1192000).
 - CVE-2021-42782: Stack buffer overflow issues in various places (bsc#1191957).
 - CVE-2019-6502: Fixed a memory leak in sc_context_create() (bsc#1122756).
 - CVE-2020-26570: Fixed a heap based buffer overflow in sc_oberthur_read_file (bsc#1177364).
 - CVE-2020-26572: Prevent out of bounds write (bsc#1177378)
 - CVE-2020-26571: gemsafe GPK smart card software driver stack-based buffer overflow (bsc#1177380)
 - CVE-2019-15946: out-of-bounds access of an ASN.1 Octet string in asn1_decode_entry (bsc#1149747)
 - CVE-2019-19479: incorrect read operation during parsing of a SETCOS file attribute (bsc#1158256)
 - CVE-2019-15945: Fixed an out-of-bounds access of an ASN.1 Bitstring in decode_bit_string (bsc#1149746).
 - CVE-2019-19481: Fixed an improper handling of buffer limits for CAC certificates (bsc#1158305).
 - CVE-2019-20792: Fixed a double free in coolkey_free_private_data (bsc#1170809).

 Non-security issues fixed:

 - Fixes segmentation fault in 'pkcs11-tool.c'. (bsc#1114649)

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 opensc package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1114649

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1122756

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1149746

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1149747

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1158256

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1158305

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1170809

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177364

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177378

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177380

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191957

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191992

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192000

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192005

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15945

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15946

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19479

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19481

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-20792

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6502

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26570

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26571

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26572

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42779

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

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42781

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?c2f28079

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 159349

File Name: suse_SU-2022-1041-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-20792

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:opensc

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15945, CVE-2019-15946, CVE-2019-19479, CVE-2019-19481, CVE-2019-20792, CVE-2019-6502, CVE-2020-26570, CVE-2020-26571, CVE-2020-26572, CVE-2021-42779, CVE-2021-42780, CVE-2021-42781, CVE-2021-42782

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:1041-1