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Debian: DSA-2626-1 Moderate: Lighttpd TLS/SSL Remote Threats

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2013
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Crucial Debian notice DSA-5023-2 tackling vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, bolstering system integrity.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the TLS/SSL protocol

Summary

CVE-2009-3555

Marsh Ray, Steve Dispensa, and Martin Rex discovered that the TLS
and SSLv3 protocols do not properly associate renegotiation
handshakes with an existing connection, which allows man-in-the-middle
attackers to insert data into HTTPS sessions. This issue is solved
in lighttpd by disabling client initiated renegotiation by default.

Those users that do actually need such renegotiations, can reenable
them via the new 'ssl.disable-client-renegotiation' parameter.

CVE-2012-4929

Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong discovered a weakness in the TLS/SSL
protocol when using compression. This side channel attack, dubbed
'CRIME', allows eavesdroppers to gather information to recover the
original plaintext in the protocol. This update disables compression.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.28-2+squeeze1.2.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), and the unstable distribution (sid)
these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.30-1.

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Package: lighttpd
CVE ID: CVE-2009-3555 CVE-2012-4929

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