RHEL 9 : openssl and openssl-fips-provider (RHSA-2024:2447)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194809

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for openssl / openssl-fips-provider.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2447 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* openssl: AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries (CVE-2023-2975)

* openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters (CVE-2023-3446)

* OpenSSL: Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value (CVE-2023-3817)

* openssl: Generating excessively long X9.42 DH keys or checking excessively long X9.42 DH keys or parameters may be very slow (CVE-2023-5678)

* openssl: POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC (CVE-2023-6129)

* openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys (CVE-2023-6237)

* openssl: denial of service via null dereference (CVE-2024-0727)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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 RHEL openssl / openssl-fips-provider packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2447.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c2463fc0

http://www.nessus.org/u?d922e0bf

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2447

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2223016

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224962

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2227852

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248616

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257571

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258502

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259944

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-14083

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-15990

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-17104

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-17193

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-1780

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-20249

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-5295

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-5304

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194809

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2447.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-6129

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-3446

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2975, CVE-2023-3446, CVE-2023-3817, CVE-2023-5678, CVE-2023-6129, CVE-2023-6237, CVE-2024-0727

CWE: 325, 328, 400, 476

RHSA: 2024:2447