CVE-2015-3197

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Low Low Impact What does this mean?
5.8 CVSS v2 Base Score

Description

A flaw was found in the way malicious SSLv2 clients could negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that were disabled on the server. This could result in weak SSLv2 ciphers being used for SSLv2 connections, making them vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

Statement

This security flaw can only be exploited when a malicious client negotiates SSLv2 ciphers and completes a SSLv2 handshake. This flaw cannot be actively exploited by a Man-In-The-Middle attacker.

All versions of OpenSSL shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux enable SSLv2 protocol, but disable SSLv2 ciphers by default (in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and later), therefore are vulnerable to this flaw. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

SSLv2 suffers from a number of security flaws allowing attackers to capture and alter information passed between a client and the server. Therefore we strongly recommend that SSLv2 should be disabled on all the SSL/TLS servers.

Additional Information

External References

Content from www.cve.org is not included.https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3197

Content from nvd.nist.gov is not included.https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3197

Content from www.openssl.org is not included.https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160128.txt

Affected Packages and Issued Red Hat Security Errata

Products / Services Components State Errata
RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6 rhev-hypervisor7 Fixed RHSA-2016:0379
RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-7 rhev-hypervisor7 Fixed RHSA-2016:0379
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extended Lifecycle Support openssl Fixed RHSA-2016:0306
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 openssl097a Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 openssl Fixed RHSA-2016:0302
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Long Life openssl Fixed RHSA-2016:0304
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Long Life openssl Fixed RHSA-2016:0304
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openssl Fixed RHSA-2016:0301
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openssl098e Fixed RHSA-2016:0372
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support openssl Fixed RHSA-2016:0303
Unless explicitly stated as not affected, all previous versions of packages in any minor update stream of a product listed here should be assumed vulnerable, although may not have been subject to full analysis.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

Important note

CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authorities (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications ).

CVSS v2 Score Breakdown Red Hat NVD
CVSS v2 Base Score 5.8 4.3
Attack Vector Network Network
Access Complexity Medium Medium
Authentication None None
Confidentiality Impact Partial Partial
Integrity Impact Partial None
Availability Impact None None

CVSS v2 Vector

Red Hat AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

NVD AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Nimrod Aviram and Sebastian Schinzel as the original reporters.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is Red Hat's CVSS v3 score or Impact different from other vendors?

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My product is listed as "Under investigation" or "Affected", when will Red Hat release a fix for this vulnerability?
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  • "Affected" means that our Analysis Team has determined that this product is affected by this vulnerability and might release a fix to address this in the near future.

What can I do if my product is listed as "Will not fix"?

 A "will not fix" status means that a fix for an affected product version is not planned or not possible due to complexity, which may create additional risk.

Available options depend mostly on the Impact of the vulnerability and the current Life Cycle phase of your product. Overall, you have the following options:
  • Upgrade to a supported product version that includes a fix for this vulnerability (recommended).
  • Apply a mitigation (if one exists).
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What can I do if my product is listed as "Fix deferred"?

 A deferred status means that a fix for an affected product version is not guaranteed due to higher-priority development work.

Available options depend mostly on the Impact of the vulnerability and the current Life Cycle phase of your product. Overall, you have the following options:
  • Apply a mitigation (if one exists).
  • Open a This content is not included.support case to request a prioritization of releasing a fix for this vulnerability.
  • Red Hat Engineering focuses on addressing high-priority issues based on their complexity or limited lifecycle support. Therefore, lower-priority issues will not receive immediate fixes.

What is a mitigation?

 A mitigation is an action that can be taken to reduce the impact of a security vulnerability, without deploying any fixes.

I have a Red Hat product but it is not in the above list, is it affected?

 The listed products were found to include one or more of the components that this vulnerability affects. These products underwent a thorough evaluation to determine their affectedness by this vulnerability. Note that layered products (such as container-based offerings) that consume affected components from any of the products listed in this table may be affected and are not represented.

Why is my security scanner reporting my product as vulnerable to this vulnerability even though my product version is fixed or not affected?

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