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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-3735

medium Nessus Plugin ID 221075

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - While parsing an IPAddressFamily extension in an X.509 certificate, it is possible to do a one-byte overread. This would result in an incorrect text display of the certificate. This bug has been present since 2006 and is present in all versions of OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0g. (CVE-2017-3735)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-3735

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 221075

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2017_3735.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 8/21/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ovmf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl097a, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-perl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ovmf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl098e, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl097a, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl098e, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openssl-devel

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-3735