SUSE SLES15: libprotobuf-lite20 / python2-cryptography / python2-psutil / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2783-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178008

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2783-1 advisory.

grpc:
- Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1197726, bsc#1144068)

protobuf:
- Fix a potential DoS issue in protobuf-cpp and protobuf-python, CVE-2022-1941, bsc#1203681
- Fix a potential DoS issue when parsing with binary data in protobuf-java, CVE-2022-3171, bsc#1204256
- Fix potential Denial of Service in protobuf-java in the parsing procedure for binary data, CVE-2021-22569, bsc#1194530
- Add missing dependency of python subpackages on python-six (bsc#1177127)
- Updated to version 3.9.2 (bsc#1162343)
* Remove OSReadLittle* due to alignment requirements.
* Don't use unions and instead use memcpy for the type swaps.
- Disable LTO (bsc#1133277)

python-aiocontextvars:
- Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

python-avro:
- Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
- Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

python-cryptography:
- update to 3.3.2 (bsc#1182066, CVE-2020-36242, bsc#1198331)
* SECURITY ISSUE: Fixed a bug where certain sequences of update() calls when symmetrically encrypting very large payloads (>2GB) could result in an integer overflow, leading to buffer overflows.
CVE-2020-36242

python-cryptography-vectors:
- update to 3.2 (bsc#1178168, CVE-2020-25659):
* CVE-2020-25659: Attempted to make RSA PKCS#1v1.5 decryption more constant time, to protect against Bleichenbacher vulnerabilities. Due to limitations imposed by our API, we cannot completely mitigate this vulnerability.
* Support for OpenSSL 1.0.2 has been removed.
* Added basic support for PKCS7 signing (including SMIME) via PKCS7SignatureBuilder.
- update to 3.3.2 (bsc#1198331)

python-Deprecated:
- Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
- update to 1.2.13:

python-google-api-core:
- Update to 1.14.2

python-googleapis-common-protos:
- Update to 1.6.0

python-grpcio-gcp:
- Initial spec for v0.2.2

python-humanfriendly:
- Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
- Update to 10.0

python-jsondiff:
- Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
- Update to version 1.3.0

python-knack:
- Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
- Update to version 0.9.0

python-opencensus:
- Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
- Disable Python2 build
- Update to 0.8.0

python-opencensus-context:
- Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

python-opencensus-ext-threading:
- Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
- Initial build version 0.1.2

python-opentelemetry-api:
- Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
- Version update to 1.5.0

python-psutil:
- Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
- update to 5.9.1
- remove the dependency on net-tools, since it conflicts with busybox-hostnmame which is default on MicroOS. (bsc#1184753)
- Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

python-PyGithub:
- Update to 1.43.5:

python-pytest-asyncio:
- Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
- Initial release of python-pytest-asyncio 0.8.0

python-requests:
- Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)

python-websocket-client:
- Update in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
- Update to version 1.3.2

python-websockets:
- Include in SLE-15 (bsc#1199282, jsc#PM-3243, jsc#SLE-24629)
- update to 9.1:

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 178008

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2783-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/6/2023

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: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.19

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Threat Score: 7.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python2-cryptography, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-requests, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python2-psutil, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libprotobuf-lite20, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python2-requests, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-websocket-client, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-psutil, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-cryptography

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: 7/4/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000518, CVE-2020-25659, CVE-2020-36242, CVE-2021-22569, CVE-2021-22570, CVE-2022-1941, CVE-2022-3171

IAVA: 2022-A-0164

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2783-1

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