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Oracle Linux 5 : openssl (ELSA-2016-0302)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89065

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-0302 advisory.

 - fix CVE-2014-3570 - Bignum squaring may produce incorrect results
 - fix CVE-2014-3571 - DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record
 - fix CVE-2014-3572 - ECDHE silently downgrades to ECDH [Client]
 - fix CVE-2016-0797 - heap corruption in BN_hex2bn and BN_dec2bn
 - fix CVE-2015-3197 - SSLv2 ciphersuite enforcement

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux 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 openssl, openssl-devel and / or openssl-perl packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-0302.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89065

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-0302.nasl

Version: 2.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/2/2016

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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 Score Source: CVE-2016-0800

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:oracle:linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-perl, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openssl-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3197, CVE-2016-0797, CVE-2016-0800

RHSA: 2016:0302