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Oracle Linux 6 : openssl (ELSA-2016-0996)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 91152

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-0996 advisory.

 - fix CVE-2016-2105 - possible overflow in base64 encoding
 - fix CVE-2016-2106 - possible overflow in EVP_EncryptUpdate()
 - fix CVE-2016-2107 - padding oracle in stitched AES-NI CBC-MAC
 - fix CVE-2016-2108 - memory corruption in ASN.1 encoder
 - fix CVE-2016-2109 - possible DoS when reading ASN.1 data from BIO
 - fix CVE-2016-0799 - memory issues in BIO_printf
 - 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
 - fix CVE-2015-7575 - disallow use of MD5 in TLS1.2
 - fix CVE-2015-3194 - certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter
 - fix CVE-2015-3195 - X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-0996.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 91152

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-0996.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2016

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2842

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-static, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-perl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0799, CVE-2016-2105, CVE-2016-2106, CVE-2016-2107, CVE-2016-2108, CVE-2016-2109, CVE-2016-2842

RHSA: 2016:0996