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Oracle Linux 5 : openssl (ELSA-2015-0800)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 82757

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-0800 advisory.

 - fix CVE-2014-8275 (without introduction of CVE-2015-0286) - various certificate fingerprint issues
 - fix CVE-2015-0204 - remove support for RSA ephemeral keys for non-export ciphersuites and on server
 - fix CVE-2015-0287 - ASN.1 structure reuse decoding memory corruption
 - fix CVE-2015-0288 - X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer dereference
 - fix CVE-2015-0289 - NULL dereference decoding invalid PKCS#7 data
 - fix CVE-2015-0292 - integer underflow in base64 decoder

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 openssl, openssl-devel and / or openssl-perl packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0800.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 82757

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-0800.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/14/2015

Updated: 4/29/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-0292

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, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/13/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8275, CVE-2015-0204, CVE-2015-0287, CVE-2015-0288, CVE-2015-0289, CVE-2015-0292, CVE-2015-0293

BID: 71937, 71939, 71942, 73225

RHSA: 2015:0800