openSUSE: 2018:2597-1 Moderate: libressl Timing Attack Fix
opensuse
September 4, 2018
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata 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.
- CVE-2018-8970: Fixed a bug in int_x509_param_set_hosts, calling strlen()
if name length provided is 0 to match the OpenSSL behaviour.
(boo#1086778)
- Fixed an out-of-bounds read and crash in DES-fcrypt (boo#1065363)
You can find a detailed list of changes
[here]( .txt).
Topics Covered
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-2018-953=1
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):
libcrypto43-2.8.0-11.1
libcrypto43-debuginfo-2.8.0-11.1
libressl-2.8.0-11.1
libressl-debuginfo-2.8.0-11.1
libressl-debugsource-2.8.0-11.1
libressl-devel-2.8.0-11.1
libssl45-2.8.0-11.1
libssl45-debuginfo-2.8.0-11.1
libtls17-2.8.0-11.1
libtls17-debuginfo-2.8.0-11.1
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):
libcrypto43-32bit-2.8.0-11.1
libcrypto43-debuginfo-32bit-2.8.0-11.1
libressl-devel-32bit-2.8.0-11.1
libssl45-32bit-2.8.0-11.1
libssl45-debuginfo-32bit-2.8.0-11.1
libtls17-32bit-2.8.0-11.1
libtls17-debuginfo-32bit-2.8.0-11.1
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):
libressl-devel-doc-2.8.0-11.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12434.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8970.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1065363
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1086778
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1097779
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2597-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.3
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Topics Covered
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