Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none

OpenSSL was updated to fix various security issues.

Following security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2015-0209: A Use After Free following     d2i_ECPrivatekey error was fixed which could lead to     crashes for attacker supplied Elliptic Curve keys. This     could be exploited over SSL connections with client     supplied keys.

  - CVE-2015-0286: A segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp was     fixed that could be exploited by attackers when e.g.
    client authentication is used. This could be exploited     over SSL connections.

  - CVE-2015-0287: A ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption     was fixed. This problem can not be exploited over     regular SSL connections, only if specific client     programs use specific ASN.1 routines.

  - CVE-2015-0288: A X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer     dereference was fixed, which could lead to crashes. This     function is not commonly used, and not reachable over     SSL methods.

  - CVE-2015-0289: Several PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences     were fixed, which could lead to crashes of programs     using the PKCS7 APIs. The SSL apis do not use those by     default.

  - CVE-2015-0292: Various issues in base64 decoding were     fixed, which could lead to crashes with memory     corruption, for instance by using attacker supplied PEM     data.

  - CVE-2015-0293: Denial of service via reachable assert in     SSLv2 servers, could be used by remote attackers to     terminate the server process. Note that this requires     SSLv2 being allowed, which is not the default.

  - CVE-2009-5146: A memory leak in the TLS hostname     extension was fixed, which could be used by remote     attackers to run SSL services out of memory.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to its banner, the remote host is running a version of OpenSSL older than 0.9.8g.  Such versions are prone to a denial of service vulnerability due to an error in the 'hostname' TLS extension. Specifically, the issue affects the 'ssl/ssl_lib.c' source file. An attacker can exploit this issue to cause a memory access violation, potentially crashing the service and denying access to legitimate users.

OpenSSL has been updated to fix various security issues :

  - A Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error was     fixed which could lead to crashes for attacker supplied     Elliptic Curve keys. This could be exploited over SSL     connections with client supplied keys. (CVE-2015-0209)

  - A segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp was fixed that     could be exploited by attackers when e.g. client     authentication is used. This could be exploited over SSL     connections. (CVE-2015-0286)

  - A ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption was fixed.
    This problem can not be exploited over regular SSL     connections, only if specific client programs use     specific ASN.1 routines. (CVE-2015-0287)

  - A X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer dereference was fixed,     which could lead to crashes. This function is not     commonly used, and not reachable over SSL methods.
    (CVE-2015-0288)

  - Several PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences were fixed,     which could lead to crashes of programs using the PKCS7     APIs. The SSL apis do not use those by default.
    (CVE-2015-0289)

  - Various issues in base64 decoding were fixed, which     could lead to crashes with memory corruption, for     instance by using attacker supplied PEM data.
    (CVE-2015-0292)

  - Denial of service via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers,     could be used by remote attackers to terminate the     server process. Note that this requires SSLv2 being     allowed, which is not the default. (CVE-2015-0293)

  - A memory leak in the TLS hostname extension was fixed,     which could be used by remote attackers to run SSL     services out of memory. (CVE-2009-5146)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
119963	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : compat-openssl098 (SUSE-SU-2015:0553-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
8663	OpenSSL <= 0.9.8f DoS	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Servers	medium
81996	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : OpenSSL (SAT Patch Number 10481)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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