The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2232-1 advisory.

    Jri Aedla discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled invalid DTLS fragments. A remote attacker could     use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary     code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 13.10, and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-0195)

    Imre Rad discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled DTLS recursions. A remote attacker could use this     issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-0221)

    KIKUCHI Masashi discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain handshakes. A remote attacker could     use this flaw to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack and possibly decrypt and modify traffic.
    (CVE-2014-0224)

    Felix Grbert and Ivan Fratri discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled anonymous ECDH ciphersuites.
    A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 13.10, and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-3470)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenSSL vulnerabilities (USN-2232-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 74353

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