This update for openvpn fixes the following security issues :
CVE-2017-12166: OpenVPN was vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when key-method 1 is used, possibly resulting in code execution. (bsc#1060877).
CVE-2016-6329: Now show which ciphers should no longer be used in openvpn --show-ciphers to avoid the SWEET32 attack (bsc#995374)
CVE-2017-7478: OpenVPN was vulnerable to unauthenticated Denial of Service of server via received large control packet. (bsc#1038709)
CVE-2017-7479: OpenVPN was vulnerable to reachable assertion when packet-ID counter rolls over resulting into Denial of Service of server by authenticated attacker. (bsc#1038711)
Some other hardening fixes have also been applied (bsc#1038713)
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.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2017:2838-1.
# The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(104141);
script_version("3.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/12/05");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2016-6329",
"CVE-2017-12166",
"CVE-2017-7478",
"CVE-2017-7479"
);
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2017-A-0285");
script_xref(name:"CEA-ID", value:"CEA-2019-0547");
script_name(english:"SUSE SLES11 Security Update : openvpn (SUSE-SU-2017:2838-1) (SWEET32)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"This update for openvpn fixes the following security issues :
- CVE-2017-12166: OpenVPN was vulnerable to a buffer
overflow vulnerability when key-method 1 is used,
possibly resulting in code execution. (bsc#1060877).
- CVE-2016-6329: Now show which ciphers should no longer
be used in openvpn --show-ciphers to avoid the SWEET32
attack (bsc#995374)
- CVE-2017-7478: OpenVPN was vulnerable to unauthenticated
Denial of Service of server via received large control
packet. (bsc#1038709)
- CVE-2017-7479: OpenVPN was vulnerable to reachable
assertion when packet-ID counter rolls over resulting
into Denial of Service of server by authenticated
attacker. (bsc#1038711)
- Some other hardening fixes have also been applied
(bsc#1038713)
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.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038709");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038711");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038713");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060877");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995374");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6329/");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12166/");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7478/");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7479/");
# https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20172838-1/
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?bcc068ba");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch
slessp4-openvpn-13322=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch
slessp3-openvpn-13322=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch
sleposp3-openvpn-13322=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch
dbgsp4-openvpn-13322=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch
dbgsp3-openvpn-13322=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"in_the_news", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/01/31");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/10/24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/10/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-auth-pam-plugin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2022 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLES11)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLES11", "SUSE " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu);
sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLES11" && (! preg(pattern:"^(3|4)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES11 SP3/4", os_ver + " SP" + sp);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"openvpn-2.0.9-143.47.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"openvpn-auth-pam-plugin-2.0.9-143.47.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"3", reference:"openvpn-2.0.9-143.47.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"3", reference:"openvpn-auth-pam-plugin-2.0.9-143.47.3.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "openvpn");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
novell | suse_linux | openvpn | p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn |
novell | suse_linux | openvpn-auth-pam-plugin | p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-auth-pam-plugin |
novell | suse_linux | 11 | cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6329
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12166
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7478
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7479
www.nessus.org/u?bcc068ba
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038709
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038711
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038713
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060877
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995374
www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6329/
www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12166/
www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7478/
www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7479/