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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : opensc (SUSE-SU-2023:4065-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183014

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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 a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4065-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2021-42782: Fixed several stack buffer overflows (bsc#1191957).
 - CVE-2023-40661: Fixed several memory safety issues that could happen during the card enrollment process using pkcs15-init (bsc#1215761).

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/1191957

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1215761

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

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-40661

http://www.nessus.org/u?0db310b5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183014

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4065-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/13/2023

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: 5.9

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: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-40661

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, 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: 10/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42782, CVE-2023-40661

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4065-1