RHEL 9 : openssl (RHSA-2023:2523)

high Nessus Plugin ID 175461

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for openssl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2523 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.

Security Fix(es):

* openssl: Using a Custom Cipher with NID_undef may lead to NULL encryption (CVE-2022-3358)

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 9.2 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 RHEL openssl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:2523.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e42f700b

http://www.nessus.org/u?ecefa061

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2060044

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2083879

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2094956

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2128412

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2129063

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2133809

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2134740

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2136250

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2137557

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2141597

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2141695

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2141748

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2142087

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2142121

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2142131

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2142517

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144561

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2157965

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2168224

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2523

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 175461

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-2523.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3358

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-perl

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: 5/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/29/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3358

CWE: 476

IAVA: 2022-A-0415-S

RHSA: 2023:2523