The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0208 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: Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters (CVE-2023-3446)

    * OpenSSL: Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value (CVE-2023-3817)

    * openssl: Generating excessively long X9.42 DH keys or checking excessively long X9.42 DH keys or     parameters may be very slow (CVE-2023-5678)

    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.

    Bug Fix(es):

    * openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value (JIRA:RHEL-14237)

    * openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters (JIRA:RHEL-14243)

    * openssl: Generating excessively long X9.42 DH keys or checking excessively long X9.42 DH keys or     parameters may be very slow (JIRA:RHEL-16536)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : openssl (RHSA-2024:0208)

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