Security update for Botan

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:2855-1
Rating: moderate
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Cross-References:
CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2017-14737 ( SUSE ): 4.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2017-14737 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 12-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description:

This update for Botan fixes the following issues:

This security issue was fixed:

  • CVE-2017-14737: A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan allowed a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occured because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key (bsc#1060433).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 12-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-1777=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2017-1777=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 12-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libbotan-1_10-0-1.10.9-4.3.1
    • libbotan-1_10-0-debuginfo-1.10.9-4.3.1
    • libbotan-devel-1.10.9-4.3.1
    • Botan-debugsource-1.10.9-4.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libbotan-1_10-0-1.10.9-4.3.1
    • libbotan-1_10-0-debuginfo-1.10.9-4.3.1
    • libbotan-devel-1.10.9-4.3.1
    • Botan-debugsource-1.10.9-4.3.1

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