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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:0799-1 Moderate: Libu2f-Host Security Issue

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Calendar Grey May 28, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Security enhancement for openSUSE Leap 15.2 tackling flaws in libu2f-host via patches and updated functionalities.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for libu2f-host fixes the following issues:

This update ships the u2f-host package (jsc#ECO-3687 bsc#1184648)

Version 1.1.10 (released 2019-05-15)

- Add new devices to udev rules.

- Fix a potentially uninitialized buffer (CVE-2019-9578, bsc#1128140)

Version 1.1.9 (released 2019-03-06)

- Fix CID copying from the init response, which broke compatibility with

some devices.

Version 1.1.8 (released 2019-03-05)

- Add udev rules

- Drop 70-old-u2f.rules and use 70-u2f.rules for everything

- Use a random nonce for setting up CID to prevent fingerprinting

- CVE-2019-9578: Parse the response to init in a more stable way to

prevent leakage of uninitialized stack memory back to the device

(bsc#1128140).

Version 1.1.7 (released 2019-01-08)

- Fix for trusting length from device in device init.

- Fix for buffer overflow when receiving data from device. (YSA-2019-01,

CVE-2018-20340, bsc#1124781)

- Add udev rules...

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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-799=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

libu2f-host-debuginfo-1.1.10-lp152.4.3.1

libu2f-host-debugsource-1.1.10-lp152.4.3.1

libu2f-host-devel-1.1.10-lp152.4.3.1

libu2f-host-doc-1.1.10-lp152.4.3.1

libu2f-host0-1.1.10-lp152.4.3.1

libu2f-host0-debuginfo-1.1.10-lp152.4.3.1

u2f-host-1.1.10-lp152.4.3.1

u2f-host-debuginfo-1.1.10-lp152.4.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20340.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9578.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1124781

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1128140

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184648

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0799-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 ble.

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