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openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2018:2592-1 Moderate: libressl Timing Leak

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Calendar Grey September 3, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A patch for libressl in openSUSE Leap 15.0 resolved a moderate vulnerability, improving general security and system robustness.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for libressl to version 2.8.0 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-12434: Avoid a timing side-channel leak when generating DSA and

ECDSA signatures. (boo#1097779)

- Reject excessively large primes in DH key generation.

Other bugs fixed:

- Fixed a pair of 20+ year-old bugs in X509_NAME_add_entry.

- Tighten up checks for various X509_VERIFY_PARAM functions, 'poisoning'

parameters so that an unverified certificate cannot be used if it fails

verification.

- Fixed a potential memory leak on failure in ASN1_item_digest.

- Fixed a potential memory alignment crash in asn1_item_combine_free.

- Removed unused SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED and

SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER flags in write path, simplifying IO paths.

- Removed SSL_OP_TLS_ROLLBACK_BUG buggy client workarounds.

- Added const annotations to many existing APIs from OpenSSL, making

interoperability easier for downstream applications.

-...

Read the Full Advisory

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 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-950=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

libcrypto43-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libcrypto43-debuginfo-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libressl-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libressl-debuginfo-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libressl-debugsource-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libressl-devel-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libssl45-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libssl45-debuginfo-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libtls17-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libtls17-debuginfo-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (noarch):

libressl-devel-doc-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

libcrypto43-32bit-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libcrypto43-32bit-debuginfo-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libressl-devel-32bit-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libssl45-32bit-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libssl45-32bit-debuginfo-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libtls17-32bit-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

libtls17-32bit-debuginfo-2.8.0-lp150.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12434.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1097779

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2592-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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