Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-14853 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Python-Ecdsa Project Python-Ecdsa

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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2019-2472.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(130892);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/16");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-14853", "CVE-2019-14859");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : python-ecdsa (openSUSE-2019-2472)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2019-2472 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This update for python-ecdsa to version 0.13.3 fixes the following
issues :

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2019-14853: Fixed unexpected exceptions during
    signature decoding (bsc#1153165).

  - CVE-2019-14859: Fixed a signature malleability caused by
    insufficient checks of DER encoding (bsc#1154217).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1153165"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1154217"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected python-ecdsa packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-14859");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python2-ecdsa");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-ecdsa");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/11/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/11/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/11/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE15\.0)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "15.0", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);



flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.0", reference:"python2-ecdsa-0.13.3-lp150.2.3.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.0", reference:"python3-ecdsa-0.13.3-lp150.2.3.1") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "python2-ecdsa / python3-ecdsa");
}