RHEL 5 : openssl (RHSA-2009:1335)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63892

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2009:1335 advisory.

- openssl: mime_hdr_cmp NULL dereference crash (CVE-2006-7250)

- openssl: ASN1 printing crash (CVE-2009-0590)

- OpenSSL: DTLS epoch record buffer memory DoS (CVE-2009-1377)

- OpenSSL: DTLS fragment handling memory DoS (CVE-2009-1378)

- OpenSSL: DTLS pointer use-after-free flaw (DoS) (CVE-2009-1379)

- openssl: DTLS NULL deref crash on early ChangeCipherSpec request (CVE-2009-1386)

- openssl: DTLS out-of-sequence message handling NULL deref DoS (CVE-2009-1387)

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 openssl, openssl-devel and / or openssl-perl packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503688

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1335

http://www.nessus.org/u?e4fd3a59

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479817

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492304

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501253

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501254

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501572

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503685

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63892

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-1335.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-1387

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-perl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-7250, CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-1377, CVE-2009-1378, CVE-2009-1379, CVE-2009-1386, CVE-2009-1387

BID: 34256, 35001, 35138, 35174, 35417

CWE: 416, 476

RHSA: 2009:1335