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openSUSE Leap 15.3: openSUSE-SU-2021:1755-1 Moderate: libu2f-host Overflow

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This modification resolves a pair of particular vulnerabilities within libu2f-host for openSUSE Leap 15.3, enhancing the overall security of the system.
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...

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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 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-1755=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libu2f-host-debuginfo-1.1.10-3.9.1

libu2f-host-debugsource-1.1.10-3.9.1

libu2f-host-devel-1.1.10-3.9.1

libu2f-host-doc-1.1.10-3.9.1

libu2f-host0-1.1.10-3.9.1

libu2f-host0-debuginfo-1.1.10-3.9.1

u2f-host-1.1.10-3.9.1

u2f-host-debuginfo-1.1.10-3.9.1

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-2021:1755-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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