SuSE 11.3 Security Update : OpenSSL (SAT Patch Number 9073)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73592

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

OpenSSL has been updated to fix an attack on ECDSA Nonces.

Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack the Nonces could have been recovered.

This update also ensures that the stack is marked non-executable on x86 32bit (bnc#870192). On other processor platforms it was already marked as non-executable before.

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 9073.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869945

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870192

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0076.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73592

File Name: suse_11_libopenssl-devel-140327.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/17/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libopenssl0_9_8, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libopenssl0_9_8-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libopenssl0_9_8-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libopenssl0_9_8-hmac-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:openssl-doc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/27/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0076