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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS : OpenSSL vulnerabilities (USN-8414-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 320403

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8414-1 advisory.

 Frank Buss discovered that OpenSSL had a heap buffer over-read in ASN.1 content parsing. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2026-34180)

 Pavol Zacik and Alex Gaynor discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly accepted PKCS#12 files with short HMAC keys when using PBMAC1. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass integrity checks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-34181)

 Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada and Alex Gaynor discovered that OpenSSL could accept forged CMS AuthEnvelopedData messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass message authentication checks. (CVE-2026-34182)

 Abhinav Agarwal discovered that OpenSSL had unbounded memory growth in the QUIC PATH_CHALLENGE handler. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-34183)

 Sunwoo Lee, Hyuk Lim, and Seunghyun Yoon discovered that OpenSSL had a NULL pointer dereference in QUIC server initial packet handling. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2026-42764)

 Mayank Jangid, Kushal Khemka, Hari Priandana, Bhabani Sankar Das, and Qifan Zhang discovered that OpenSSL had a possible NULL dereference in password- based CMS decryption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-42766)

 Zhanpeng Liu, Guannan Wang, and Guancheng Li discovered that OpenSSL had a NULL pointer dereference in CRMF EncryptedValue decryption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-42767)

 Alex Gaynor discovered that OpenSSL had a Bleichenbacher oracle in CMS_decrypt() and PKCS7_decrypt() with multiple RecipientInfo values. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.
 This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42768)

 Alex Gaynor discovered that OpenSSL had a trust-anchor substitution issue in CMP rootCaKeyUpdate processing. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass certificate trust validation. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42769)

 Alex Gaynor discovered that OpenSSL used attacker-supplied parameters when validating FFC-DH peers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to weaken key validation and compromise security guarantees.
 (CVE-2026-42770)

 Alex Gaynor discovered that OpenSSL could ignore the IV in AES-OCB mode on the EVP_Cipher() path. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass cryptographic protections and obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2026-45445)

 Alex Gaynor discovered that OpenSSL had incorrect tag processing for empty messages in AES-GCM-SIV and AES-SIV modes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass cryptographic integrity checks.
 (CVE-2026-45446)

 Thai Duong discovered that OpenSSL had a heap use-after-free in PKCS7_verify(). An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2026-45447)

 Zehua Qiao and Jinwen He discovered that OpenSSL had a possible heap buffer overflow in ASN.1 multibyte string conversion. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-7383)

 Bhabani Sankar Das discovered that OpenSSL had an out-of-bounds read in CMS password-based decryption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2026-9076)

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-8414-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 320403

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8414-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/11/2026

Updated: 6/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-45447

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-34182

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, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-34180, CVE-2026-34181, CVE-2026-34182, CVE-2026-34183, CVE-2026-42764, CVE-2026-42766, CVE-2026-42767, CVE-2026-42768, CVE-2026-42769, CVE-2026-42770, CVE-2026-45445, CVE-2026-45446, CVE-2026-45447, CVE-2026-7383, CVE-2026-9076

USN: 8414-1