RHEL 9 : opensc (RHSA-2024:0966)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 190988

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for opensc.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0966 advisory.

- OpenSC: Side-channel leaks while stripping encryption PKCS#1 padding (CVE-2023-5992)

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 RHEL opensc package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:0966.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f68b0e3b

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248685

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0966

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 190988

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0966.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/26/2024

Updated: 4/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2023-5992

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opensc

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5992

CWE: 203

RHSA: 2024:0966