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Debian 7: DSA-3125-1 Critical OpenSSL Denial Of Service Attack

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2015
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Important Debian update DSA-3126-2 resolves several vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, reinforcing overall system protection.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit

Summary

CVE-2014-3569

Frank Schmirler reported that the ssl23_get_client_hello function in
OpenSSL does not properly handle attempts to use unsupported
protocols. When OpenSSL is built with the no-ssl3 option and a SSL
v3 ClientHello is received, the ssl method would be set to NULL which
could later result in a NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash.

CVE-2014-3570

Pieter Wuille of Blockstream reported that the bignum squaring
(BN_sqr) may produce incorrect results on some platforms, which
might make it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic
protection mechanisms.

CVE-2014-3571

Markus Stenberg of Cisco Systems, Inc. reported that a carefully
crafted DTLS message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due
to a NULL pointer dereference. A remote attacker could use this flaw
to mount a denial of service attack.

CVE-2014-3572

Karthikeyan Bhargavan of the PROSECCO team at INRIA reported that an
OpenSSL client would accept a handshake us...

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Package: openssl
CVE ID: CVE-2014-3569 CVE-2014-3570 CVE-2014-3571 CVE-2014-3572

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