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MiracleLinux 9 : openssl-3.0.7-27.el9.ML.1 (AXSA:2024-7908:04)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 292746

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2024-7908:04 advisory.

 * 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux 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://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/19092

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 292746

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2024-7908.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/20/2026

Updated: 1/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, 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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:openssl-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:openssl, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:openssl-perl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2023

Reference Information

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