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Oracle Linux 7 : openssh (ELSA-2015-2088)

high Nessus Plugin ID 87019

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2088 advisory.

 - Security fixes released with openssh-6.9 (CVE-2015-5352) (#1247864)
 - XSECURITY restrictions bypass under certain conditions in ssh(1) (#1238231)
 - weakness of agent locking (ssh-add -x) to password guessing (#1238238)
 - only query each keyboard-interactive device once (CVE-2015-5600) (#1245971)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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 packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-2088.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87019

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-2088.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/24/2015

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5600

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-askpass, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-server-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-clients, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pam_ssh_agent_auth, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-ldap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-keycat, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssh-server

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5600, CVE-2015-6563, CVE-2015-6564

RHSA: 2015:2088