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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : nginx vulnerability (USN-2351-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 77808

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that nginx incorrectly reused cached SSL sessions. An attacker could possibly use this issue in certain configurations to obtain access to information from a different virtual host.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2351-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 77808

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2351-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/23/2014

Updated: 10/20/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3616

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nginx-core, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nginx-extras, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nginx-full, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nginx-light, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nginx-naxsi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nginx-naxsi-ui, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nginx, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nginx-common

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3616

BID: 70025

USN: 2351-1