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Debian 4782-2 Security Advisory: PolarSSL Remote Attack Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2013
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Various vulnerabilities uncovered in PolarSSL, impacting encryption processes and SSL/TLS protocols; all distributions are advised to perform an upgrade.
Multiple security issues have been discovered in PolarSSL, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library: CVE-2013-4623

Summary

Multiple security issues have been discovered in PolarSSL, a lightweight
crypto and SSL/TLS library:

CVE-2013-4623

Jack Lloyd discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the
parsing of PEM-encoded certificates.

CVE-2013-5914

Paul Brodeur and TrustInSoft discovered a buffer overflow in the
ssl_read_record() function, allowing the potential execution of
arbitrary code.

CVE-2013-5915

Cyril Arnaud and Pierre-Alain Fouque discovered timimg attacks against
the RSA implementation.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems will be fixed in
version 1.2.9-1~deb6u1 soon (due to a technical limitation the updates
cannot be released synchronously).

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.9-1~deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your polarssl packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to you...

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Package: polarssl
CVE ID: CVE-2013-4623 CVE-2013-5914 CVE-2013-5915

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