SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : opensc (SUSE-SU-2022:1156-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 159699

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1156-1 advisory.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2021-42782: Stack buffer overflow issues in various places (bsc#1191957).
- CVE-2021-42781: Fixed multiple heap buffer overflows in pkcs15-oberthur.c (bsc#1192000).
- 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).

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 and / or opensc-32bit packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 159699

File Name: suse_SU-2022-1156-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/13/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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: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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42779, CVE-2021-42780, CVE-2021-42781, CVE-2021-42782

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:1156-1

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