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Debian: DSA-1970-1 Critical: Openssl Denial Of Service Advisory

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2010
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The recent Debian notice regarding openssl highlights a critical memory leak issue that could lead to a denial of service. Ensure you update promptly to safeguard your infrastructure.
It was discovered that a significant memory leak could occur in openssl, related to the reinitialization of zlib

Summary

The old stable distribution (etch) is not affected by this issue.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.8g-15+lenny6.

The packages for the arm architecture are not included in this advisory.
They will be released as soon as they become available.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem will be fixed soon. The issue does not seem to be
exploitable with the apache2 package contained in squeeze/sid.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages. You also need to
restart your Apache httpd server to make sure it uses the updated
libraries.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated upda...

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