CentOS 4 : openssl (CESA-2012:0086)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57806

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated openssl packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols, as well as a full-strength, general purpose cryptography library.

An information leak flaw was found in the SSL 3.0 protocol implementation in OpenSSL. Incorrect initialization of SSL record padding bytes could cause an SSL client or server to send a limited amount of possibly sensitive data to its SSL peer via the encrypted connection. (CVE-2011-4576)

It was discovered that OpenSSL did not limit the number of TLS/SSL handshake restarts required to support Server Gated Cryptography. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server using OpenSSL consume an excessive amount of CPU by continuously restarting the handshake. (CVE-2011-4619)

All OpenSSL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. For the update to take effect, all services linked to the OpenSSL library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

Solution

Update the affected openssl packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57806

File Name: centos_RHSA-2012-0086.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 2/3/2012

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4576

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-perl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/6/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4576, CVE-2011-4619

BID: 51281

RHSA: 2012:0086

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