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openSUSE: 2023:0311-1 Critical: openssl-1_1 Security Risk Mitigation

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Calendar Grey February 7, 2023
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SUSE has released a significant security update that targets crucial vulnerabilities in openssl-1_1, which are essential for maintaining the overall stability of the system.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for openssl-1_1 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2023-0286: Fixed X.400 address type confusion in X.509

GENERAL_NAME_cmp for x400Address (bsc#1207533).

- CVE-2023-0215: Fixed use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF()

(bsc#1207536).

- CVE-2022-4450: Fixed double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex()

(bsc#1207538).

- CVE-2022-4304: Fixed timing Oracle in RSA Decryption (bsc#1207534).

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 Micro 5.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-Micro-5.3-2023-311=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-311=1

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP4:

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP4-2023-311=1

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3:

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2023-311=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 (aarch64 x86_64):

libopenssl-1_1-devel-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

libopenssl1_1-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

libopenssl1_1-debuginfo-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

libopenssl1_1-hmac-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

openssl-1_1-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

openssl-1_1-debuginfo-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

openssl-1_1-debugsource-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libopenssl-1_1-devel-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

libopenssl1_1-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

libopenssl1_1-debuginfo-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

libopenssl1_1-hmac-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

openssl-1_1-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

openssl-1_1-debuginfo-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

openssl-1_1-debugsource-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64):

libopenssl-1_1-devel-32bit-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

libopenssl1_1-32bit-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

libopenssl1_1-32bit-debuginfo-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

libopenssl1_1-hmac-32bit-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch):

openssl-1_1-doc-1.1.1l-150400.7.22.1

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP4 (aarch64 ppc64le...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4304.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4450.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0215.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0286.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1207533

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1207534

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1207536

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1207538

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:0311-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15-SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15-SP4 SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 SUSE Manager Server 4.3 openSUSE Leap 15.4 openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3

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