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SUSE SLED15: bouncycastle / bouncycastle-javadoc / bouncycastle-jmail / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:1539-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 195155

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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-2024:1539-1 advisory.

 Update to version 1.78.1, including fixes for:

 - CVE-2024-30171: Fixed timing side-channel attacks against RSA decryption (both PKCS#1v1.5 and OAEP).
 (bsc#1223252)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1223252

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-30171

http://www.nessus.org/u?811b653f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 195155

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1539-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/8/2024

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-2024-30171

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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bouncycastle, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bouncycastle-pg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bouncycastle-util, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bouncycastle-pkix, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 5/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-30171

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1539-1