The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2914-1 advisory.

    Yuval Yarom, Daniel Genkin, and Nadia Heninger discovered that OpenSSL was vulnerable to a side-channel     attack on modular exponentiation. On certain CPUs, a local attacker could possibly use this issue to     recover RSA keys. This flaw is known as CacheBleed. (CVE-2016-0702)

    Adam Langley discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled memory when parsing DSA private keys. A remote     attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0705)

    Guido Vranken discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled hex digit calculation in the BN_hex2bn function.
    A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0797)

    Emilia Ksper discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled memory when performing SRP user database     lookups. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to consume memory, resulting in     a denial of service. (CVE-2016-0798)

    Guido Vranken discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled memory when printing very long strings. A remote     attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0799)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenSSL vulnerabilities (USN-2914-1)

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