Summary
The remote host is missing an update to openssl
announced via advisory DSA 2454-2.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202454-2
Insight
Tomas Hoger, Red Hat, discovered that the fix for CVE-2012-2110 for the 0.9.8 series of OpenSSL was incomplete. It has been assigned the CVE-2012-2131 identifier.
For reference, the original description of CVE-2012-2110 from DSA-2454-1 is quoted below:
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.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.8o-4squeeze12.
The testing distribution (wheezy), and the unstable distribution (sid), are not affected by this issue.
We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-2110, CVE-2012-2131 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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