Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : openssl vulnerability (USN-1064-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51996

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Neel Mehta discovered that incorrectly formatted ClientHello handshake messages could cause OpenSSL to parse past the end of the message.
This could allow a remote attacker to cause a crash and denial of service by triggering invalid memory accesses.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51996

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1064-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 2/16/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl0.9.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl0.9.8-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssl-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0014

BID: 46264

USN: 1064-1

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