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Debian DSA-2622-1 Critical: Polarssl Remote Attack Details

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Calendar Grey February 13, 2013
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Debian Security Notice regarding several flaws in polarssl affecting both reliability and safety.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL

Summary

CVE-2013-0169

A timing side channel attack has been found in CBC padding
allowing an attacker to recover pieces of plaintext via statistical
analysis of crafted packages, known as the "Lucky Thirteen" issue.

CVE-2013-1621

An array index error might allow remote attackers to cause a denial
of service via vectors involving a crafted padding-length value
during validation of CBC padding in a TLS session

CVE-2013-1622

Malformed CBC data in a TLS session could allow remote attackers to
conduct distinguishing attacks via statistical analysis of timing
side-channel data for crafted packets.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.12.1-1squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), and the unstable distribution
(sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.4-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your polarssl packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequen...

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Package: polarssl
CVE ID: CVE-2013-0169 CVE-2013-1621 CVE-2013-1622

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