ERROR:- OpenSSL ‘ChangeCipherSpec’ MiTM Vulnerability

From a PCI scan, this error.

Answer: Your scanning provider is apparently relying on the version information in the banner to determine vulnerability. Redhat frequently backports fixes into previous versions of applications which is the case with your version of OpenSSL (openssl-0.9.8e-27.el5_10.4). This is a false positive. The vulnerability does not affect this server.

You can read about this at https://access.redhat.com/articles/904433

# rpm -q --changelog openssl |grep CVE-2014
- fix CVE-2014-0221 - recursion in DTLS code leading to DoS
- fix CVE-2014-3505 - doublefree in DTLS packet processing
- fix CVE-2014-3506 - avoid memory exhaustion in DTLS
- fix CVE-2014-3508 - fix OID handling to avoid information leak
- fix CVE-2014-3510 - fix DoS in anonymous (EC)DH handling in DTLS
- fix for CVE-2014-0224 - SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability
- fix CVE-2014-0221 - recursion in DTLS code leading to DoS
- fix CVE-2014-3505 - doublefree in DTLS packet processing
- fix CVE-2014-3506 - avoid memory exhaustion in DTLS
- fix CVE-2014-3508 - fix OID handling to avoid information leak
- fix CVE-2014-3510 - fix DoS in anonymous (EC)DH handling in DTLS
- fix for CVE-2014-0224 - SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability

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