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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : openssl vulnerabilities (USN-2232-4)
high Nessus Plugin ID 77245
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.Description
USN-2232-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. One of the patch backports for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS caused a regression for certain applications. This update fixes the problem.We apologize for the inconvenience.
Juri 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 man-in-the-middle attack and possibly decrypt and modify traffic. (CVE-2014-0224)
Felix Grobert and Ivan Fratric 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).
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 libssl0.9.8 package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 77245
File Name: ubuntu_USN-2232-4.nasl
Version: 1.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 8/19/2014
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 7.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.4
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl0.9.8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2014
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2014
Exploitable With
Core Impact
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-0224, CVE-2014-3470
BID: 67898, 67899, 67900, 67901
USN: 2232-4