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Oracle Linux 7 : openssl (ELSA-2018-3221)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 118777

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-3221 advisory.

 - fix CVE-2018-0495 - ROHNP - Key Extraction Side Channel on DSA, ECDSA
 - fix CVE-2017-3735 - possible one byte overread with X.509 IPAdressFamily
 - fix CVE-2018-0732 - large prime DH DoS of TLS client
 - fix CVE-2018-0737 - RSA key generation cache timing vulnerability

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-3221.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 118777

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2018-3221.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2018

Updated: 3/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-3735

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-0737

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-static, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-perl, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-3735, CVE-2018-0495, CVE-2018-0732, CVE-2018-0737, CVE-2018-0739

RHSA: 2018:3221