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openSUSE: 2021:1355-1 Moderate: mbedtls Side-Channel Protection

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An enhancement for mbedtls resolves a significant concern by safeguarding against side-channel vulnerabilities. Get it today!
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for mbedtls fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2021-24119: Fixed side-channel vulnerability in base64 PEM

[boo#1189589]

Guard against strong local side channel attack against base64 tables by

making access aceess to them use constant flow code.

This update was imported from the openSUSE:Leap:15.2:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update patch side-channel attack openSUSE mbedtls

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 Backports SLE-15-SP2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1355=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libmbedcrypto3-2.16.9-bp152.2.6.1

libmbedtls12-2.16.9-bp152.2.6.1

libmbedx509-0-2.16.9-bp152.2.6.1

mbedtls-devel-2.16.9-bp152.2.6.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 (aarch64_ilp32):

libmbedcrypto3-64bit-2.16.9-bp152.2.6.1

libmbedtls12-64bit-2.16.9-bp152.2.6.1

libmbedx509-0-64bit-2.16.9-bp152.2.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-24119.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189589

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1355-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update patch side-channel attack openSUSE mbedtls

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