FreeBSD : OpenSSL ChangeCipherSpec denial-of-service vulnerability (68233cba-7774-11d8-89ed-0020ed76ef5a)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 37800

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

A remote attacker could cause an application using OpenSSL to crash by performing a specially crafted SSL/TLS handshake.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20040317.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?e66394e1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 37800

File Name: freebsd_pkg_68233cba777411d889ed0020ed76ef5a.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:openssl, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:openssl-beta, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/17/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0079

BID: 9899

CERT: 288574

FreeBSD: SA-04:05.openssl