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CentOS 8 : openssl (CESA-2019:3700)

high Nessus Plugin ID 145661

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2019:3700 advisory.

 - openssl: timing side channel attack in the DSA signature algorithm (CVE-2018-0734)

 - openssl: timing side channel attack in the ECDSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0735)

 - openssl: ChaCha20-Poly1305 with long nonces (CVE-2019-1543)

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3700

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 145661

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2019-3700.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/29/2021

Updated: 3/23/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1543

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-perl, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-libs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0734, CVE-2018-0735, CVE-2019-1543

BID: 105750, 105758, 107349

RHSA: 2019:3700