openSUSE 15 Security Update : mbedtls (openSUSE-SU-2024:0037-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 189889

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2024:0037-1 advisory.

- An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS 2.x before 2.28.7 and 3.x before 3.5.2. There was a timing side channel in RSA private operations. This side channel could be sufficient for a local attacker to recover the plaintext. It requires the attacker to send a large number of messages for decryption, as described in Everlasting ROBOT: the Marvin Attack by Hubert Kario. (CVE-2024-23170)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1219336

http://www.nessus.org/u?b6c3eecb

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-23170

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 189889

File Name: openSUSE-2024-0037-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2024

Updated: 2/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-23170

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmbedcrypto7, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmbedcrypto7-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmbedcrypto7-64bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmbedtls14, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmbedtls14-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmbedtls14-64bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmbedx509-1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmbedx509-1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmbedx509-1-64bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mbedtls-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.5

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: 1/31/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-23170