CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
56.6%
The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 8337251b-b07b-11ee-b0d7-84a93843eb75 advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the applicationโs self-reported version number.
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include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(187961);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-6129");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2024-A-0121-S");
script_name(english:"FreeBSD : OpenSSL -- Vector register corruption on PowerPC (8337251b-b07b-11ee-b0d7-84a93843eb75)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a
vulnerability as referenced in the 8337251b-b07b-11ee-b0d7-84a93843eb75 advisory.
- Issue summary: The POLY1305 MAC (message authentication code) implementation contains a bug that might
corrupt the internal state of applications running on PowerPC CPU based platforms if the CPU provides
vector instructions. Impact summary: If an attacker can influence whether the POLY1305 MAC algorithm is
used, the application state might be corrupted with various application dependent consequences. The
POLY1305 MAC (message authentication code) implementation in OpenSSL for PowerPC CPUs restores the
contents of vector registers in a different order than they are saved. Thus the contents of some of these
vector registers are corrupted when returning to the caller. The vulnerable code is used only on newer
PowerPC processors supporting the PowerISA 2.07 instructions. The consequences of this kind of internal
application state corruption can be various - from no consequences, if the calling application does not
depend on the contents of non-volatile XMM registers at all, to the worst consequences, where the attacker
could get complete control of the application process. However unless the compiler uses the vector
registers for storing pointers, the most likely consequence, if any, would be an incorrect result of some
application dependent calculations or a crash leading to a denial of service. The POLY1305 MAC algorithm
is most frequently used as part of the CHACHA20-POLY1305 AEAD (authenticated encryption with associated
data) algorithm. The most common usage of this AEAD cipher is with TLS protocol versions 1.2 and 1.3. If
this cipher is enabled on the server a malicious client can influence whether this AEAD cipher is used.
This implies that TLS server applications using OpenSSL can be potentially impacted. However we are
currently not aware of any concrete application that would be affected by this issue therefore we consider
this a Low severity security issue. (CVE-2023-6129)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20240109.txt");
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script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?79df3696");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-6129");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2024/01/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/01/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/01/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:openssl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:openssl-quictls");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:openssl31");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:openssl31-quictls");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:openssl32");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");
exit(0);
}
include("freebsd_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var flag = 0;
var packages = [
'openssl-quictls<3.0.12_2',
'openssl31-quictls<3.1.4_2',
'openssl31<3.1.4_2',
'openssl32<3.2.0_1',
'openssl<3.0.12_2,1'
];
foreach var package( packages ) {
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg: package)) flag++;
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : pkg_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
56.6%