RHEL 9 : openssl (RHSA-2024:0500)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189583

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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-2024:0500 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: Incorrect cipher key and IV length processing (CVE-2023-5363)

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):

* Backport implicit rejection mechanism for RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 to RHEL-9.2.z (RHEL-14578, BZ#2153471)
* OpenSSL should provide FIPS-compliant RSA-OAEP (RHEL-14616)
* NIST SP 800-56Arev3 Section 5.6.2.1 - Missing ECDH Public Key Check (RHEL-15992)
* In FIPS mode, OpenSSL must not perform any cryptographic operations when rsa_keygen_pairwise_test fails (RHEL-17110)

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-2024:0500.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 189583

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0500.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/25/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2023-5363

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:rhel_eus:9.2, 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: 1/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5363

CWE: 325

IAVA: 2023-A-0582-S

RHSA: 2024:0500

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