Oracle Linux 7 : openldap (ELSA-2015-2131)

high Nessus Plugin ID 87023

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2131 advisory.

[2.4.40-8]
- NSS does not support string ordering (#1231522)
- implement and correct order of parsing attributes (#1231522)
- add multi_mask and multi_strength to correctly handle sets of attributes (#1231522)
- add new cipher suites and correct AES-GCM attributes (#1245279)
- correct DEFAULT ciphers handling to exclude eNULL cipher suites (#1245279)

[2.4.40-7]
- Merge two MozNSS cipher suite definition patches into one. (#1245279)
- Use what NSS considers default for DEFAULT cipher string. (#1245279)
- Remove unnecesary defaults from ciphers' definitions (#1245279)

[2.4.40-6]
- fix: OpenLDAP shared library destructor triggers memory leaks in NSPR (#1249977)

[2.4.40-5]
- enhancement: support TLS 1.1 and later (#1231522,#1160467)
- fix: openldap ciphersuite parsing code handles masks incorrectly (#1231522)
- fix the patch in commit da1b5c (fix: OpenLDAP crash in NSS shutdown handling) (#1231228)

[2.4.40-4]
- fix: rpm -V complains (#1230263) -- make the previous fix do what was intended

[2.4.40-3]
- fix: rpm -V complains (#1230263)

[2.4.40-2]
- fix: missing frontend database indexing (#1226600)

[2.4.40-1]
- new upstream release (#1147982)
- fix: PIE and RELRO check (#1092562)
- fix: slaptest doesn't convert perlModuleConfig lines (#1184585)
- fix: OpenLDAP crash in NSS shutdown handling (#1158005)
- fix: slapd.service may fail to start if binding to NIC ip (#1198781)
- fix: deadlock during SSL_ForceHandshake when getting connection to replica (#1125152)
- improve check_password (#1174723, #1196243)
- provide an unversioned symlink to check_password.so.1.1 (#1174634)
- add findutils to requires (#1209229)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2015-2131.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87023

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-2131.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/24/2015

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-3276

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openldap-clients, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openldap-servers-sql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openldap, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openldap-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openldap-servers

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: 12/7/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3276

RHSA: 2015:2131