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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:2238-1 Moderate: ASN.1 Security Threat

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Calendar Grey August 7, 2018
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Essential update issued for ovmf in openSUSE addressing security vulnerabilities associated with ASN.1 recursive definitions.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available.

Description

This update for ovmf provide the following fix:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-0739: Update openssl to 1.0.2o to limit ASN.1 constructed types

recursive definition depth (bsc#1094290, bsc#1094291).

Bug fixes:

- Only use SLES-UEFI-CA-Certificate-2048.crt for the SUSE flavor to

provide the better compatibility. (bsc#1077330)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security fix openSUSE asn.1 ovmf

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-823=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

ovmf-2017+git1492060560.b6d11d7c46-10.1

ovmf-tools-2017+git1492060560.b6d11d7c46-10.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

qemu-ovmf-x86_64-debug-2017+git1492060560.b6d11d7c46-10.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

qemu-ovmf-ia32-2017+git1492060560.b6d11d7c46-10.1

qemu-ovmf-x86_64-2017+git1492060560.b6d11d7c46-10.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0739.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1077330

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094290

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094291

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2238-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security fix openSUSE asn.1 ovmf

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