The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9333 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: Unbounded memory growth with session handling in TLSv1.3 (CVE-2024-2511)

    * openssl: Excessive time spent checking DSA keys and parameters (CVE-2024-4603)

    * openssl: Use After Free with SSL_free_buffers (CVE-2024-4741)

    * openssl: SSL_select_next_proto buffer overread (CVE-2024-5535)

    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 9.5 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 9 : openssl and openssl-fips-provider (RHSA-2024:9333)

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Version 1.2 Mar 28, 2025, 7:34 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202503281934
Version 1.1 Nov 12, 2024, 8:29 PM New Plugin Feed: 202411122029