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RHEL 8 : openssl (RHSA-2020:4514)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 143076
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4514 advisory.OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: openssl (1.1.1g). (BZ#1817593)
Security Fix(es):
* openssl: Integer overflow in RSAZ modular exponentiation on x86_64 (CVE-2019-1551)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?b7e37d18
http://www.nessus.org/u?e7fdecb5
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4514
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 143076
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4514.nasl
Version: 1.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 11/19/2020
Updated: 11/7/2024
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 2.2
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Low
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1551
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.3
Temporal Score: 4.6
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-perl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2019
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2019-1551