| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to openssl announced via advisory DSA 2454-1.
This VT has been deprecated and merged into the VT 'Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2454)' (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.71261).
Vulnerability Insight:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:
CVE-2012-0884
Ivan Nestlerode discovered a weakness in the CMS and PKCS #7
implementations that could allow an attacker to decrypt data
via a Million Message Attack (MMA).
CVE-2012-1165
It was discovered that a NULL pointer could be dereferenced
when parsing certain S/MIME messages, leading to denial of
service.
CVE-2012-2110
Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, discovered a vulnerability
in the way DER-encoded ASN.1 data is parsed that can result in
a heap overflow.
Additionally, the fix for CVE-2011-4619 has been updated to address an
issue with SGC handshakes.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.9.8o-4squeeze11.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.1a-1.
Solution:
We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.
CVSS Score:
7.5
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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