SUSE SLES12 Security Update : compat-openssl098 (SUSE-SU-2023:3096-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 179190

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3096-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-4304: Reworked the fix for the Timing-Oracle in RSA decryption.
The previous fix for this timing side channel turned out to cause a severe 2-3x performance regression in the typical use case (bsc#1207534).

- CVE-2023-3446: Fixed DH_check() excessive time with over sized modulus (bsc#1213487).

- Update further expiring certificates that affect tests (bsc#1201627).

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 libopenssl0_9_8 and / or libopenssl0_9_8-32bit packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 179190

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3096-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/2/2023

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4304

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl0_9_8, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl0_9_8-32bit

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: 8/1/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-4304, CVE-2023-3446

IAVA: 2023-A-0398-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3096-1

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