SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : go1.19 (SUSE-SU-2023:3263-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 179680

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3263-1 advisory.

- Update to go v1.19.12 (released 2023-08-01) (bsc#1200441)
- CVE-2023-29409: Restrict RSA keys in certificates to less than or equal to 8192 bits to avoid DoSing client/server while validating signatures for extremely large RSA keys. (bsc#1213880)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected go1.19, go1.19-doc and / or go1.19-race packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 179680

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3263-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/11/2023

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: 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-2023-29409

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:go1.19, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:go1.19-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:go1.19-race

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: 8/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29409

IAVB: 2023-B-0064-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3263-1

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