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Debian: DSA-2950-1 Critical: OpenSSL DoS and Buffer Overflow

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Debian DSA-2951-1: Various vulnerabilities addressed in OpenSSH, mandatory updates recommended for optimal security.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL: CVE-2014-0195

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL:

CVE-2014-0195

Jueri Aedla discovered that a buffer overflow in processing DTLS
fragments could lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial
of service.

CVE-2014-0221

Imre Rad discovered the processing of DTLS hello packets is
susceptible to denial of service.

CVE-2014-0224

KIKUCHI Masashi discovered that carefully crafted handshakes can
force the use of weak keys, resulting in potential man-in-the-middle
attacks.

CVE-2014-3470

Felix Groebert and Ivan Fratric discovered that the implementation of
anonymous ECDH ciphersuites is suspectible to denial of service.

Additional information can be found at

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u10. All applications linked to openssl need to
be restarted. You can use the tool checkrestart from the package
debian-goodies to detect affected programs or reboot your system. There's
also a forthcoming security...

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Package: openssl
CVE ID: CVE-2014-0195 CVE-2014-0221 CVE-2014-0224 CVE-2014-3470

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