OracleVM 3.2 : openssl (OVMSA-2016-0086)
Critical Nessus Plugin ID 91777
Synopsis
The remote OracleVM host is missing a security update.
Description
The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :
- CVE-2016-0799 - Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
- CVE-2016-2105 - Avoid overflow in EVP_EncodeUpdate
- CVE-2016-2106 - Fix encrypt overflow
- CVE-2016-2109 - Harden ASN.1 BIO handling of large amounts of data.
- To disable SSLv2 client connections create the file /etc/sysconfig/openssl-ssl-client-kill-sslv2 (John Haxby) [orabug 21673934]
- Backport openssl 08-Jan-2015 security fixes (John Haxby) [orabug 20409893]
- 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-2016-2108 - memory corruption in ASN.1 encoder
Solution
Update the affected openssl package.