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Oracle Linux 5 : openssl (ELSA-2016-1137)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 91414

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-1137 advisory.

 - fix CVE-2014-3570 - Bignum squaring may produce incorrect results
 - fix CVE-2014-3571 - DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record
 - fix CVE-2014-3572 - ECDHE silently downgrades to ECDH [Client]

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected openssl, openssl-devel and / or openssl-perl packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-1137.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 91414

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-1137.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/1/2016

Updated: 11/1/2024

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: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2108

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-perl, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/31/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2108

RHSA: 2016:1137