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.

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

high Nessus Plugin ID 87023

Version 1.13