AIX OpenSSL Advisory : openssl_advisory16.asc (SLOTH)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 88591

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Synopsis

The remote AIX host has a version of OpenSSL installed that is affected by a collision-based forgery vulnerability.

Description

The remote AIX host has a version of OpenSSL installed that is affected by a collision-based forgery vulnerability, known as SLOTH (Security Losses from Obsolete and Truncated Transcript Hashes), in the TLS protocol due to accepting RSA-MD5 signatures in the server signature within the TLS 1.2 ServerKeyExchange messages during a TLS handshake. A man-in-the-middle attacker can exploit this, via a transcript collision attack, to impersonate a TLS server.

Solution

A fix is available and can be downloaded from the IBM AIX website.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 88591

File Name: aix_openssl_advisory16.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Family: AIX Local Security Checks

Published: 2/5/2016

Updated: 4/21/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:ibm:aix, cpe:/a:openssl:openssl

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AIX/version, Host/AIX/lslpp

Patch Publication Date: 1/29/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7575

BID: 79684

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