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RockyLinux 8 : openssl (RLSA-2023:7877)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 277368

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Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2023:7877 advisory.

 * 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:7877

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=2270358

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 277368

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2023-7877.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 12/4/2025

Updated: 12/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2408

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:openssl-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:openssl-perl, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:openssl-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:openssl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:openssl-libs, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:openssl-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-3446, CVE-2023-3817, CVE-2023-5678, CVE-2024-2408