Fedora 14 : openssl-1.0.0e-1.fc14 (2011-12281)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56156

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New upstream release fixing CVE-2011-3207 and a few other minor bugs.

It also improves performance of AES, SHA1 and RC4 on new Intel CPUs and enables VIA Padlock HW acceleration support on 64 bit architecture.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected openssl package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736088

http://www.nessus.org/u?d79e0fc7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56156

File Name: fedora_2011-12281.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/12/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openssl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/8/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3207

BID: 49469

FEDORA: 2011-12281