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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 : OpenSSL vulnerabilities (USN-7980-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 297271

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7980-1 advisory.

 Stanislav Fort, Petr imeek, and Hamza discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly validated PBMAC1 parameters when doing PKCS#12 MAC verification. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-11187)

 Stanislav Fort discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly parsed CMS AuthEnvelopedData messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2025-15467)

 Stanislav Fort discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled memory in the SSL_CIPHER_find() function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-15468)

 Stanislav Fort discovered that the OpenSSL openssl dgst command line tool incorrectly truncated data to 16MB. An attacker could posibly use this issue to hide unauthenticated data beyond the 16MB limit. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-15469)

 Tomas Dulka and Stanislav Fort discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled memory with TLS 1.3 connections using certificate compression. An attacker could possibly use this issue to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-66199)

 Petr Simecek and Stanislav Fort discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled memory when writing large data into a BIO chain. An attacker could possibly use this issue to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2025-68160)

 Stanislav Fort discovered that the OpenSSL OCB API could incorrectly leave final partial blocks unencrypted and unauthenticated. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read or tamper with the affected final bytes. (CVE-2025-69418)

 Stanislav Fort discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled the PKCS12_get_friendlyname() utf-8 conversion.
 An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2025-69419)

 Luigino Camastra discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled ASN1_TYPE validation in the TS_RESP_verify_response() function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2025-69420)

 Luigino Camastra discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled memory in the PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i_ex function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2025-69421)

 Luigino Camastra discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled ASN1_TYPE validation in PKCS#12 parsing. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2026-22795)

 Luigino Camastra discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled ASN1_TYPE validation in the PKCS7_digest_from_attributes() function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-22796)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7980-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 297271

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7980-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/30/2026

Updated: 1/30/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-15467

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl3, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl3t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssl-provider-legacy

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/27/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-11187, CVE-2025-15467, CVE-2025-15468, CVE-2025-15469, CVE-2025-66199, CVE-2025-68160, CVE-2025-69418, CVE-2025-69419, CVE-2025-69420, CVE-2025-69421, CVE-2026-22795, CVE-2026-22796

IAVA: 2026-A-0087

USN: 7980-1