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Oracle Linux 5 : openssl (ELSA-2015-1197)

low Nessus Plugin ID 84485

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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-2015-1197 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]
 - fix CVE-2015-1789 - out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
 - fix CVE-2015-1790 - PKCS7 crash with missing EncryptedContent

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-2015-1197.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 84485

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-1197.nasl

Version: 2.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2015

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-4000

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

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: 6/30/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1789, CVE-2015-1790, CVE-2015-4000

BID: 71937, 71939, 71942, 74733, 75156, 75157

RHSA: 2015:1197