SUSE SLES11 Security Update : openssl (SUSE-SU-2016:2458-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 93893

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for openssl fixes the following issues: OpenSSL Security Advisory [22 Sep 2016] (bsc#999665) Severity: High

- OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304) (bsc#999666) Severity: Low

- Pointer arithmetic undefined behavior (CVE-2016-2177) (bsc#982575)

- Constant time flag not preserved in DSA signing (CVE-2016-2178) (bsc#983249)

- DTLS buffered message DoS (CVE-2016-2179) (bsc#994844)

- DTLS replay protection DoS (CVE-2016-2181) (bsc#994749)

- OOB write in BN_bn2dec() (CVE-2016-2182) (bsc#993819)

- Birthday attack against 64-bit block ciphers (SWEET32) (CVE-2016-2183) (bsc#995359)

- Malformed SHA512 ticket DoS (CVE-2016-6302) (bsc#995324)

- OOB write in MDC2_Update() (CVE-2016-6303) (bsc#995377)

- Certificate message OOB reads (CVE-2016-6306) (bsc#999668) More information can be found on:
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160922.txt Bugs fixed :

- Update expired S/MIME certs (bsc#979475)

- Fix crash in print_notice (bsc#998190)

- Resume reading from /dev/urandom when interrupted by a signal (bsc#995075)

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

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3:zypper in -t patch slestso13-openssl-12774=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5:zypper in -t patch sleclo50sp3-openssl-12774=1

SUSE Manager Proxy 2.1:zypper in -t patch slemap21-openssl-12774=1

SUSE Manager 2.1:zypper in -t patch sleman21-openssl-12774=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-openssl-12774=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-openssl-12774=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp3-openssl-12774=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp2-openssl-12774=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch sleposp3-openssl-12774=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-openssl-12774=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-openssl-12774=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP2:zypper in -t patch dbgsp2-openssl-12774=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 93893

File Name: suse_SU-2016-2458-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/6/2016

Updated: 1/22/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6303

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2177, CVE-2016-2178, CVE-2016-2179, CVE-2016-2181, CVE-2016-2182, CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-6302, CVE-2016-6303, CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-6306

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