Fedora Core 5 : openssl-0.9.8a-5.3 / openssl097a-0.9.7a-4.2.2 (2006-953)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24176

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This is a security update for CVE-2006-4339. Avoid PKCS #1 v1.5 signature attack discovered by Daniel Bleichenbacher [Ben Laurie;
Google Security Team]

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e0e4991d

http://www.nessus.org/u?afd55ec0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24176

File Name: fedora_2006-953.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openssl-perl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openssl097a, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openssl097a-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openssl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openssl-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/5/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-953