An update of the openssl package has been released.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:25239 advisory.

    OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS)     protocols, as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.

    Security Fix(es):

    * openssl: OpenSSL: Heap buffer overflow due to signed integer overflow in Unicode output sizing     (CVE-2026-7383)

    * openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service due to heap out-of-bounds read in CMS password-based decryption     (CVE-2026-9076)

    * openssl: OpenSSL: Heap buffer over-read in ASN.1 decoding can lead to denial of service or information     disclosure. (CVE-2026-34180)

    * openssl: PKCS#12 Files with PBMAC1 Are Accepted with Short HMAC Keys (CVE-2026-34181)

    * openssl: CMS AuthEnvelopedData Processing May Accept Forged Messages (CVE-2026-34182)

    * openssl: Unbounded Memory Growth in the QUIC PATH_CHALLENGE Handler (CVE-2026-34183)

    * openssl: NULL pointer dereference in QUIC server initial packet handling (CVE-2026-42764)

    * openssl: Possible NULL Dereference in Password-Based CMS Decryption (CVE-2026-42766)

    * openssl: NULL Pointer Dereference in CRMF EncryptedValue Decryption (CVE-2026-42767)

    * openssl: Multi-RecipientInfo Bleichenbacher Oracle in CMS_decrypt() and PKCS7_decrypt() (CVE-2026-42768)

    * openssl: Trust-Anchor Substitution via cert/issuer Typo in CMP rootCaKeyUpdate (CVE-2026-42769)

    * openssl: FFC-DH Peer Validation Uses Attacker-Supplied q (CVE-2026-42770)

    * openssl: AES-OCB IV Ignored on EVP_Cipher() Path (CVE-2026-45445)

    * openssl: Incorrect Tag Processing for Empty Messages in AES-GCM-SIV and AES-SIV modes (CVE-2026-45446)

    * openssl: Heap Use-After-Free in OpenSSL PKCS7_verify() (CVE-2026-45447)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:2397-1 advisory.

    This update for openssl-3 fixes the following issues

    - CVE-2026-7383: Possible Heap Buffer Overflow in ASN.1 Multibyte String Conversion (bsc#1266340).
    - CVE-2026-9076: Out-of-Bounds Read in CMS Password-Based Decryption (bsc#1266341).
    - CVE-2026-34180: Heap Buffer Over-read in ASN.1 Content Parsing (bsc#1266342).
    - CVE-2026-42766: Possible NULL Dereference in Password-Based CMS Decryption (bsc#1266349).
    - CVE-2026-42770: FFC-DH Peer Validation Uses Attacker-Supplied q (bsc#1266353).
    - CVE-2026-45445: AES-OCB IV Ignored on EVP_Cipher() Path (bsc#1266355).
    - CVE-2026-45446: Incorrect Tag Processing for Empty Messages in AES-GCM-SIV and AES-SIV modes     (bsc#1266356).
    - CVE-2026-45447: Heap Use-After-Free in OpenSSL PKCS7_verify() (bsc#1266357).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Issue summary: The implementations of AES-SIV (RFC 5297) and AES-GCM-SIV (RFC 8452) mishandle the     authentication of AAD (Additional Authenticated Data) with an empty ciphertext allowing a forgery of such     messages. Impact summary: An attacker can forge empty messages with arbitrary AAD to the victim's     application using these ciphers. AES-SIV (RFC 5297) and AES-GCM-SIV (RFC 8452) are nonce-misuse-resistant     AEAD modes: they accept a key, nonce, optional AAD (bytes that are authenticated but not encrypted), and     plaintext, and produces ciphertext plus a 16-byte tag. On decrypt, `EVP_DecryptFinal_ex()` is documented     to return success only if the tag is verified succesfully. In OpenSSL's provider implementation of these     ciphers, the expected tag is computed only when decryption function is invoked with non-empty data. If the     caller supplies AAD and then calls `EVP_DecryptFinal_ex()` without invocation of the ciphertext update,     which can happen when the received ciphertext length is zero, the tag is never recalculated and still     holds its all-zeros value. When AES-GCM-SIV is used, an attacker who sends arbitrary AAD, empty     ciphertext, and all-zeros tag passes authentication under any key they do not know, single-shot. When AES-     SIV is used, for mounting the attack it's necessary for the application to reuse the decryption context     without resetting the key. AES-SIV is implemented since OpenSSL 3.0. AES-GCM-SIV is implemented since     OpenSSL 3.2. No protocols implemented in OpenSSL itself (TLS/CMS/PKCS7/HPKE/QUIC) support either AES-GCM-     SIV or AES-SIV. To mount an attack, the applications must implement their own protocol and use the EVP     interface. Also they must skip the ciphertext update when a message with an empty ciphertext arrives. The     FIPS modules in 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as these algorithms are not     FIPS approved and the affected code is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary. (CVE-2026-45446)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
321398	Photon OS 4.0: Openssl PHSA-2026-4.0-1031	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	6/17/2026	6/17/2026	critical
332414	Photon OS 5.0: Openssl PHSA-2026-5.0-92-0874	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	8/5/2026	8/8/2026	high
320634	RHEL 9 : openssl (RHSA-2026:25239)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	6/11/2026	6/12/2026	critical
321593	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : openssl-3 (SUSE-SU-2026:2397-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/20/2026	7/3/2026	high
320315	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-45446	Nessus	Misc.	6/10/2026	8/27/2026	medium

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