openSUSE Security Update : libopenssl-devel (openSUSE-SU-2010:0952-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53674

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Specially crafted responses from SSL servers could cause a double-free bug in openssl's client implementation. Malicious servers could exploit that to crash programs use openssl for the SSL connection (CVE-2010-2939).

Solution

Update the affected libopenssl-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608666

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629905

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-11/msg00023.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53674

File Name: suse_11_1_libopenssl-devel-100927.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/5/2011

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libopenssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libopenssl0_9_8, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libopenssl0_9_8-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openssl, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/27/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2939