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Debian Wheezy DSA-2896-2 Urgent: OpenSSL Heap Corruption Issue

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Calendar Grey April 7, 2014
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A vulnerability has been discovered in OpenSSL's support for the TLS/DTLS Hearbeat extension
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Summary

All users are urged to upgrade their openssl packages (especially
libssl1.0.0) and restart applications as soon as possible.

According to the currently available information, private keys should be
considered as compromised and regenerated as soon as possible. More
details will be communicated at a later time.

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this
vulnerability.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u5.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1g-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1g-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: openssl
CVE ID: CVE-2014-0160

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