Debian DSA-3500-1 : openssl - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 89061

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Socket Layer toolkit.

- CVE-2016-0702 Yuval Yarom from the University of Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin from Technion and Tel Aviv University, and Nadia Heninger from the University of Pennsylvania discovered a side-channel attack which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture. This could allow local attackers to recover RSA private keys.

- CVE-2016-0705 Adam Langley from Google discovered a double free bug when parsing malformed DSA private keys. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or memory corruption in applications parsing DSA private keys received from untrusted sources.

- CVE-2016-0797 Guido Vranken discovered an integer overflow in the BN_hex2bn and BN_dec2bn functions that can lead to a NULL pointer dereference and heap corruption. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or memory corruption in applications processing hex or dec data received from untrusted sources.

- CVE-2016-0798 Emilia Kasper of the OpenSSL development team discovered a memory leak in the SRP database lookup code. To mitigate the memory leak, the seed handling in SRP_VBASE_get_by_user is now disabled even if the user has configured a seed. Applications are advised to migrate to the SRP_VBASE_get1_by_user function.

- CVE-2016-0799, CVE-2016-2842 Guido Vranken discovered an integer overflow in the BIO_*printf functions that could lead to an OOB read when printing very long strings. Additionally the internal doapr_outch function can attempt to write to an arbitrary memory location in the event of a memory allocation failure. These issues will only occur on platforms where sizeof(size_t) > sizeof(int) like many 64 bit systems. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or memory corruption in applications that pass large amounts of untrusted data to the BIO_*printf functions.

Additionally the EXPORT and LOW ciphers were disabled since thay could be used as part of the DROWN (CVE-2016-0800 ) and SLOTH (CVE-2015-7575 ) attacks, but note that the oldstable (wheezy) and stable (jessie) distributions are not affected by those attacks since the SSLv2 protocol has already been dropped in the openssl package version 1.0.0c-2.

Solution

Upgrade the openssl packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u20.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1k-3+deb8u4.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 89061

File Name: debian_DSA-3500.nasl

Version: 2.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/2/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openssl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0702, CVE-2016-0705, CVE-2016-0797, CVE-2016-0798, CVE-2016-0799, CVE-2016-2842

DSA: 3500

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