Vuln web cve-2014-0160

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Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability

This vulnerability means that your system is running a vulnerable version of openssl that is vulnerable to the Heartbleed Vulnerability. This vulnerability makes it possible for an attacker to steal information from memory on your server, remotely, including passwords, sensitive information and private SSL keys. This is a very serious vulnerability and means that TLS and SSL based connections on your system can be compromised by an attacker exposing any information being sent over these connections.

Next Steps

To fix this vulnerability you need to upgrade openssl to a version that is not vulnerable to this hole. The follow list provides links to specific vendors websites with instructions to fix this vulnerability.

Redhat: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0160

Centos: See the Redhat information above. Centos is a derivative of RHEL.

Cpanel: https://cpanel.net/heartbleed-vulnerability-information/

Parallels Automation: http://kb.parallels.com/en/120984

Parallels Business Automation Standard: http://kb.parallels.com/en/120986

Parallels Plesk Panel: http://kb.parallels.com/en/120990

Parallels Virtualization products: http://kb.parallels.com/en/120989

It is also recommended that you implement Perfect Forward Secrecy on your server to mitigate possible future vulnerabilities in the TLS protocol. Please see the PFS article for recommendations.


Outside references

http://heartbleed.com/

http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0160

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Heartbleed+vendor+notifications/17929

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