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Oracle Linux 5 : openssl (ELSA-2009-1335)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180619

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2009-1335 advisory.

 - fix CVE-2009-1386 CVE-2009-1387 (DTLS DoS problems) (#503685, #503688)
 - fix CVE-2009-1377 CVE-2009-1378 CVE-2009-1379 (DTLS DoS problems) (#501253, #501254, #501572)
 - fix CVE-2009-0590 - reject incorrectly encoded ASN.1 strings (#492304)

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 openssl, openssl-devel and / or openssl-perl packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2009-1335.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 180619

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-1335.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-1387

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-perl, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-devel

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: 9/8/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-7250, CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-1377, CVE-2009-1378, CVE-2009-1379, CVE-2009-1386, CVE-2009-1387