news 28 Posted March 22, 2017 openSUSE Security Update: Security update for mbedtls ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:0790-1 Rating: important References: #1029017 Cross-References: CVE-2017-2784 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 openSUSE Leap 42.1 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: This update to mbedtls 1.3.19 fixes security issues and bugs. The following vulnerability was fixed: CVE-2017-2784: A remote user could have used a specially crafted certificate to cause mbedtls to free a buffer allocated on the stack when verifying the validity of public key with a secp224k1 curve, which could have allowed remote code execution on some platforms (boo#1029017) The following non-security changes are included: - Add checks to prevent signature forgeries for very large messages while using RSA through the PK module in 64-bit systems. - Fixed potential livelock during the parsing of a CRL in PEM format Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.2: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-372=1 - openSUSE Leap 42.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-372=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64): libmbedtls9-1.3.19-15.1 libmbedtls9-debuginfo-1.3.19-15.1 mbedtls-debugsource-1.3.19-15.1 mbedtls-devel-1.3.19-15.1 - openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64): libmbedtls9-32bit-1.3.19-15.1 libmbedtls9-debuginfo-32bit-1.3.19-15.1 - openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64): libmbedtls9-1.3.19-15.1 libmbedtls9-debuginfo-1.3.19-15.1 mbedtls-debugsource-1.3.19-15.1 mbedtls-devel-1.3.19-15.1 - openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64): libmbedtls9-32bit-1.3.19-15.1 libmbedtls9-debuginfo-32bit-1.3.19-15.1 References: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2784.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1029017 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security-announce+unsubscribe ( -at -) opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security-announce+help ( -at -) opensuse.org Share this post Link to post