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GLSA-201507-15 : OpenSSL: Alternate chains certificate forgery

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86084

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201507-15 (OpenSSL: Alternate chains certificate forgery)

 During certificate verification, OpenSSL attempts to find an alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain fails.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf certificate to act as a CA and “issue” an invalid certificate.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All OpenSSL users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.1p'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-15

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86084

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201507-15.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Published: 9/23/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:openssl, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/10/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1793

BID: 75652

GLSA: 201507-15