The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6622-1 advisory.

    David Benjamin discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled excessively long X9.42 DH keys. A remote     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to consume resources, leading to a denial of     service. (CVE-2023-5678)

    Sverker Eriksson discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled POLY1304 MAC on the PowerPC architecture. A     remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04.
    (CVE-2023-6129)

    It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled excessively long RSA public keys. A remote attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-6237)

    Bahaa Naamneh discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain malformed PKCS12 files. A remote     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2024-0727)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : OpenSSL vulnerabilities (USN-6622-1)

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