Debian DLA-421-1 : openssl security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 88863

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2015-3197: A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2.

Additionally, when using a DHE cipher suite a new DH key will always be generated for each connection.

This will be the last security update for the squeeze version of the package. The 0.9.8 version is no longer supported and the squeeze LTS support will end soon. If you are using openssl you should upgrade to wheezy or preferably jessie. The version in those versions contain many security improvements.

Kurt Roeckx

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/02/msg00013.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/openssl

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 88863

File Name: debian_DLA-421.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/22/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcrypto0.9.8-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libssl-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libssl0.9.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libssl0.9.8-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openssl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3197