Debian DSA-3673-1 : openssl - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 93668

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenSSL :

- CVE-2016-2177 Guido Vranken discovered that OpenSSL uses undefined pointer arithmetic. Additional information can be found at https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2016/06/27/undefined-p ointer-arithmetic/

- CVE-2016-2178 Cesar Pereida, Billy Brumley and Yuval Yarom discovered a timing leak in the DSA code.

- CVE-2016-2179 / CVE-2016-2181 Quan Luo and the OCAP audit team discovered denial of service vulnerabilities in DTLS.

- CVE-2016-2180 / CVE-2016-2182 / CVE-2016-6303 Shi Lei discovered an out-of-bounds memory read in TS_OBJ_print_bio() and an out-of-bounds write in BN_bn2dec() and MDC2_Update().

- CVE-2016-2183 DES-based cipher suites are demoted from the HIGH group to MEDIUM as a mitigation for the SWEET32 attack.

- CVE-2016-6302 Shi Lei discovered that the use of SHA512 in TLS session tickets is susceptible to denial of service.

- CVE-2016-6304 Shi Lei discovered that excessively large OCSP status request may result in denial of service via memory exhaustion.

- CVE-2016-6306 Shi Lei discovered that missing message length validation when parsing certificates may potentially result in denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the openssl packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1t-1+deb8u4.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 93668

File Name: debian_DSA-3673.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/23/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openssl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2177, CVE-2016-2178, CVE-2016-2179, CVE-2016-2180, CVE-2016-2181, CVE-2016-2182, CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-6302, CVE-2016-6303, CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-6306

DSA: 3673