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openSUSE Leap 15.3 Important: Cryptctl Password Client Issue

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2021
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Critical patch released for cryptctl taking care of a severe client password encryption flaw in openSUSE Leap 15.3.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for cryptctl fixes the following issues:

Update to version 2.4:

- CVE-2019-18906: Client side password hashing was equivalent to clear

text password storage (bsc#1186226)

- First step to use plain text password instead of hashed password.

- Move repository into the SUSE github organization

- in RPC server, if client comes from localhost, remember its ipv4

localhost address instead of ipv6 address

- tell a record to clear expired pending commands upon saving a command

result; introduce pending commands RPC test case

- avoid hard coding 127.0.0.1 in host ID of alive message test; let system

administrator mount and unmount disks by issuing these two commands on

key server.

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-15.3-2021-2136=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (ppc64le x86_64):

cryptctl-2.4-4.5.1

cryptctl-debuginfo-2.4-4.5.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18906.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186226

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2136-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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