CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : openssl (CESA-2009:0004)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35310

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated OpenSSL packages that correct a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength, general purpose, cryptography library.

The Google security team discovered a flaw in the way OpenSSL checked the verification of certificates. An attacker in control of a malicious server, or able to effect a 'man in the middle' attack, could present a malformed SSL/TLS signature from a certificate chain to a vulnerable client and bypass validation. (CVE-2008-5077)

All OpenSSL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. For the update to take effect, all running OpenSSL client applications must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

Solution

Update the affected openssl packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5c2df4d6

http://www.nessus.org/u?3237a6d9

http://www.nessus.org/u?699759fd

http://www.nessus.org/u?4a33d5b8

http://www.nessus.org/u?ccd277d4

http://www.nessus.org/u?5aed7956

http://www.nessus.org/u?66d8d2db

http://www.nessus.org/u?fe15c5e8

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ef0e5b4

http://www.nessus.org/u?5c467ba9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35310

File Name: centos_RHSA-2009-0004.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/8/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-perl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl096b, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl097a, cpe:/o:centos:centos:3, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/7/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5077, CVE-2009-0021, CVE-2009-0046, CVE-2009-0047, CVE-2009-0048, CVE-2009-0049, CVE-2009-0124, CVE-2009-0125, CVE-2009-0127, CVE-2009-0128, CVE-2009-0130

CWE: 20, 287

RHSA: 2009:0004