openSUSE Security Update: Security update for libressl
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2597-1
Rating: moderate
References: #1065363 #1086778 #1097779
Cross-References: CVE-2018-12434 CVE-2018-8970
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.3
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An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one
errata is now available.

Description:

This update for libressl to version 2.8.0 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

– CVE-2018-12434: Avoid a timing side-channel leak when generating DSA and
ECDSA signatures. (boo#1097779)
– Reject excessively large primes in DH key generation.
– CVE-2018-8970: Fixed a bug in int_x509_param_set_hosts, calling strlen()
if name length provided is 0 to match the OpenSSL behaviour.
(boo#1086778)
– Fixed an out-of-bounds read and crash in DES-fcrypt (boo#1065363)

You can find a detailed list of changes
[here](https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/libressl-2.8.0-relnotes
.txt).

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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-953=1

Package List:

– openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

libcrypto43-2.8.0-11.1
libcrypto43-debuginfo-2.8.0-11.1
libressl-2.8.0-11.1
libressl-debuginfo-2.8.0-11.1
libressl-debugsource-2.8.0-11.1
libressl-devel-2.8.0-11.1
libssl45-2.8.0-11.1
libssl45-debuginfo-2.8.0-11.1
libtls17-2.8.0-11.1
libtls17-debuginfo-2.8.0-11.1

– openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

libcrypto43-32bit-2.8.0-11.1
libcrypto43-debuginfo-32bit-2.8.0-11.1
libressl-devel-32bit-2.8.0-11.1
libssl45-32bit-2.8.0-11.1
libssl45-debuginfo-32bit-2.8.0-11.1
libtls17-32bit-2.8.0-11.1
libtls17-debuginfo-32bit-2.8.0-11.1

– openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

libressl-devel-doc-2.8.0-11.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12434.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8970.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1065363
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1086778
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1097779

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