Security update for libgcrypt

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:1859-1
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2019-12904 ( NVD ): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2019-12904 ( NVD ): 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that solves one vulnerability and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for libgcrypt fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2019-12904: The C implementation of AES is vulnerable to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack because physical addresses are available to other processes. (The C implementation is used on platforms where an assembly-language implementation is unavailable.) (bsc#1138939)

Other bugfixes:

  • Don't run full FIPS self-tests from constructor (bsc#1097073)
  • Skip all the self-tests except for binary integrity when called from the constructor (bsc#1097073)
  • Enforce the minimal RSA keygen size in fips mode (bsc#1125740)
  • avoid executing some tests twice.
  • Fixed a race condition in initialization.
  • Fixed env-script-interpreter in cavs_driver.pl
  • Fixed redundant fips tests in some situations causing failure to boot in fips mode. (bsc#1097073)

This helps during booting of the system in FIPS mode with insufficient entropy.

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:

  • Basesystem Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-1859=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libgcrypt20-1.8.2-6.17.1
    • libgcrypt20-debuginfo-1.8.2-6.17.1
    • libgcrypt-devel-debuginfo-1.8.2-6.17.1
    • libgcrypt20-hmac-1.8.2-6.17.1
    • libgcrypt-devel-1.8.2-6.17.1
    • libgcrypt-debugsource-1.8.2-6.17.1
  • Basesystem Module 15 (x86_64)
    • libgcrypt20-32bit-1.8.2-6.17.1
    • libgcrypt20-32bit-debuginfo-1.8.2-6.17.1
    • libgcrypt20-hmac-32bit-1.8.2-6.17.1

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