OracleVM 3.2 : openssl (OVMSA-2016-0086)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 91777

Synopsis

The remote OracleVM host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

- CVE-2016-0799 - Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions

- CVE-2016-2105 - Avoid overflow in EVP_EncodeUpdate

- CVE-2016-2106 - Fix encrypt overflow

- CVE-2016-2109 - Harden ASN.1 BIO handling of large amounts of data.

- To disable SSLv2 client connections create the file /etc/sysconfig/openssl-ssl-client-kill-sslv2 (John Haxby) [orabug 21673934]

- Backport openssl 08-Jan-2015 security fixes (John Haxby) [orabug 20409893]

- 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]

- fix CVE-2016-2108 - memory corruption in ASN.1 encoder

Solution

Update the affected openssl package.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2016-June/000499.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 91777

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0086.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Published: 6/23/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: 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 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:vm:openssl, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/22/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3570, CVE-2014-3571, CVE-2014-3572, CVE-2016-0799, CVE-2016-2105, CVE-2016-2106, CVE-2016-2108, CVE-2016-2109

BID: 71937, 71939, 71942, 74107, 75769