SUSE SLES10 Security Update : openssl (SUSE-SU-2016:1360-1)

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SUSE SLES10 Security Update : openssl (SUSE-SU-2016:1360-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 91282

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for OpenSSL fixes the following security issues :

CVE-2016-2105: EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (bsc#977614)

CVE-2016-2106: EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (bsc#977615)

CVE-2016-2108: Memory corruption in the ASN.1 encoder (bsc#977617)

CVE-2016-2109: ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (bsc#976942)

CVE-2016-0702: Side channel attack on modular exponentiation 'CacheBleed' (bsc#968050)

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected openssl packages

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 91282

File Name: suse_SU-2016-1360-1.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2016

Updated: 1/6/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-doc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:10

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: 5/19/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0702, CVE-2016-2105, CVE-2016-2106, CVE-2016-2108, CVE-2016-2109