The fix used to correct CVE-2006-2940 introduced code that could lead to the use of uninitialized memory. Such use is likely to cause the application using the openssl library to crash, and has the potential to allow an attacker to cause the execution of arbitrary code. For reference please find below the original advisory text :
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenSSL cryptographic software package that could allow an attacker to launch a denial of service attack by exhausting system resources or crashing processes on a victim’s computer.
- CVE-2006-2937 Dr S N Henson of the OpenSSL core team and Open Network Security recently developed an ASN1 test suite for NISCC (www.niscc.gov.uk). When the test suite was run against OpenSSL two denial of service vulnerabilities were discovered.
During the parsing of certain invalid ASN1 structures an error condition is mishandled. This can result in an infinite loop which consumes system memory.
Any code which uses OpenSSL to parse ASN1 data from untrusted sources is affected. This includes SSL servers which enable client authentication and S/MIME applications.
- CVE-2006-3738 Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry of the Google Security Team discovered a buffer overflow in SSL_get_shared_ciphers utility function, used by some applications such as exim and mysql. An attacker could send a list of ciphers that would overrun a buffer.
- CVE-2006-4343 Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry of the Google Security Team discovered a possible DoS in the sslv2 client code. Where a client application uses OpenSSL to make a SSLv2 connection to a malicious server that server could cause the client to crash.
- CVE-2006-2940 Dr S N Henson of the OpenSSL core team and Open Network Security recently developed an ASN1 test suite for NISCC (www.niscc.gov.uk). When the test suite was run against OpenSSL a DoS was discovered.
Certain types of public key can take disproportionate amounts of time to process. This could be used by an attacker in a denial of service attack.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1185. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(22727);
script_version("1.17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2006-2937", "CVE-2006-2940", "CVE-2006-3738", "CVE-2006-4343");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1185");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1185-2 : openssl - denial of service");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"The fix used to correct CVE-2006-2940 introduced code that could lead
to the use of uninitialized memory. Such use is likely to cause the
application using the openssl library to crash, and has the potential
to allow an attacker to cause the execution of arbitrary code. For
reference please find below the original advisory text :
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenSSL
cryptographic software package that could allow an attacker to
launch a denial of service attack by exhausting system resources or
crashing processes on a victim's computer.
- CVE-2006-2937
Dr S N Henson of the OpenSSL core team and Open
Network Security recently developed an ASN1 test suite
for NISCC (www.niscc.gov.uk). When the test suite was
run against OpenSSL two denial of service
vulnerabilities were discovered.
During the parsing of certain invalid ASN1 structures an error
condition is mishandled. This can result in an infinite loop which
consumes system memory.
Any code which uses OpenSSL to parse ASN1 data from untrusted
sources is affected. This includes SSL servers which enable client
authentication and S/MIME applications.
- CVE-2006-3738
Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry of the Google Security
Team discovered a buffer overflow in
SSL_get_shared_ciphers utility function, used by some
applications such as exim and mysql. An attacker could
send a list of ciphers that would overrun a buffer.
- CVE-2006-4343
Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry of the Google Security
Team discovered a possible DoS in the sslv2 client
code. Where a client application uses OpenSSL to make
a SSLv2 connection to a malicious server that server
could cause the client to crash.
- CVE-2006-2940
Dr S N Henson of the OpenSSL core team and Open
Network Security recently developed an ASN1 test suite
for NISCC (www.niscc.gov.uk). When the test suite was
run against OpenSSL a DoS was discovered.
Certain types of public key can take disproportionate amounts of
time to process. This could be used by an attacker in a denial of
service attack."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-2937"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-3738"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-4343"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-2940"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1185"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the openssl package. Note that services linking against the
openssl shared libraries will need to be restarted. Common examples of
such services include most Mail Transport Agents, SSH servers, and web
servers.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.9.7e-3sarge4.
For the unstable and testing distributions (sid and etch,
respectively), these problems will be fixed in version 0.9.7k-3 of the
openssl097 compatibility libraries, and version 0.9.8c-3 of the
openssl package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_cwe_id(119, 399);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openssl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/10/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/09/28");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libssl-dev", reference:"0.9.7e-3sarge4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libssl0.9.7", reference:"0.9.7e-3sarge4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"openssl", reference:"0.9.7e-3sarge4")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | openssl | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openssl |
debian | debian_linux | 3.1 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2937
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2940
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3738
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4343
www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1185
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-2937
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-2940
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-3738
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-4343