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Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : openssl vulnerabilities (USN-353-1)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 27933
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
Dr. Henson of the OpenSSL core team and Open Network Security discovered a mishandled error condition in the ASN.1 parser. By sending specially crafted packet data, a remote attacker could exploit this to trigger an infinite loop, which would render the service unusable and consume all available system memory. (CVE-2006-2937)Certain types of public key could take disproportionate amounts of time to process. The library now limits the maximum key exponent size to avoid Denial of Service attacks. (CVE-2006-2940)
Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry of the Google Security Team discovered a buffer overflow in the SSL_get_shared_ciphers() function. By sending specially crafted packets to applications that use this function (like Exim, MySQL, or the openssl command line tool), a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the server's privileges. (CVE-2006-3738)
Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry of the Google Security Team reported that the get_server_hello() function did not sufficiently check the client's session certificate. This could be exploited to crash clients by remote attackers sending specially crafted SSL responses.
(CVE-2006-4343).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 27933
File Name: ubuntu_USN-353-1.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 11/10/2007
Updated: 1/19/2021
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: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl0.9.8-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl0.9.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl0.9.7, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl-dev
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 9/28/2006
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-2940, CVE-2006-3738, CVE-2006-4343, CVE-2007-5135