SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openssl (SUSE-SU-2017:0441-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97129

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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 contained in the OpenSSL Security Advisory [26 Jan 2017] (bsc#1021641) Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2016-7055: The x86_64 optimized montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (bsc#1009528)

- CVE-2017-3731: Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (bsc#1022085)

- CVE-2017-3732: BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (bsc#1022086)

- Degrade the 3DES cipher to MEDIUM in SSLv2 (bsc#1001912) Non-security issues fixed :

- fix crash in openssl speed (bsc#1000677)

- fix X509_CERT_FILE path (bsc#1022271)

- AES XTS key parts must not be identical in FIPS mode (bsc#1019637)

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 Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-228=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-228=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-228=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-228=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000677

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001912

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009528

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1019637

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1021641

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1022085

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1022086

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1022271

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7055/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3731/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3732/

http://www.nessus.org/u?7a90e680

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97129

File Name: suse_SU-2017-0441-1.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/13/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenssl1_0_0-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openssl-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7055, CVE-2017-3731, CVE-2017-3732