The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-0301 advisory.

    - fix CVE-2016-0702 - side channel attack on modular exponentiation
    - fix CVE-2016-0705 - double-free in DSA private key parsing
    - fix CVE-2016-0797 - heap corruption in BN_hex2bn and BN_dec2bn
    - fix CVE-2015-3197 - SSLv2 ciphersuite enforcement

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.

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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : openssl (ELSA-2016-0301)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 89064

Version 2.27

Version 2.26

Version 2.27 Nov 1, 2024, 11:44 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411012344
Version 2.26 Oct 22, 2024, 9:14 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2016-0705") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410222114