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Oracle Linux 9 : openssl / and / openssl-fips-provider (ELSA-2024-9333)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 211573

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-9333 advisory.

 - Fix CVE-2024-6119: Possible denial of service in X.509 name checks Resolves: RHEL-55339
 - Fix CVE-2024-5535: SSL_select_next_proto buffer overread Resolves: RHEL-45657
 - Rebase to OpenSSL 3.2.2. Fixes CVE-2024-2511, CVE-2024-4603, CVE-2024-4741, and Minerva attack.
 Resolves: RHEL-32148 Resolves: RHEL-36792 Resolves: RHEL-38514 Resolves: RHEL-39111
 - POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC (CVE-2023-6129) Resolves: RHEL-21151
 - Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys (CVE-2023-6237) Resolves: RHEL-21654
 - AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries (CVE-2023-2975) Resolves: RHEL-5302
 - Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters (CVE-2023-3446) Resolves: RHEL-5306
 - Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value (CVE-2023-3817) Resolves: RHEL-5308
 - Fix incorrect cipher key and IV length processing (CVE-2023-5363) Resolves: RHEL-13251
 - Excessive time spent in DH check/generation with large Q parameter value (CVE-2023-5678) Resolves: RHEL-15954
 - Fix possible DoS translating ASN.1 object identifiers Resolves: CVE-2023-2650
 - Fixed X.509 Name Constraints Read Buffer Overflow Resolves: CVE-2022-4203
 - Fixed Timing Oracle in RSA Decryption Resolves: CVE-2022-4304
 - Fixed Double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex Resolves: CVE-2022-4450
 - Fixed Use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF Resolves: CVE-2023-0215
 - Fixed Invalid pointer dereference in d2i_PKCS7 functions Resolves: CVE-2023-0216
 - Fixed NULL dereference validating DSA public key Resolves: CVE-2023-0217
 - Fixed X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName Resolves: CVE-2023-0286
 - Fixed NULL dereference during PKCS7 data verification Resolves: CVE-2023-0401
 - CVE-2022-3602: X.509 Email Address Buffer Overflow
 - CVE-2022-3786: X.509 Email Address Buffer Overflow Resolves: CVE-2022-3602

 openssl-fips-provider

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-9333.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 211573

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-9333.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/19/2024

Updated: 11/19/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-5535

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-libs, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9:5:baseos_base, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9:5:appstream_base, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-fips-provider, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-fips-provider-so, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-perl, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9::baseos_latest

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2511, CVE-2024-4603, CVE-2024-4741, CVE-2024-5535

IAVA: 2024-A-0208-S, 2024-A-0321-S, 2024-A-0731