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Debian: DSA-4540-1 Critical Update on OpenSSL Timing Attack

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Calendar Grey October 1, 2019
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Fedora has published patches for libcurl to address vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows and denial-of-service exploits recently.
Two security issues were discovered in OpenSSL: A timing attack against ECDSA and a padding oracle in PKCS7_dataDecode() and CMS_decrypt_set1_pkey()

Summary

Two security issues were discovered in OpenSSL: A timing attack against
ECDSA and a padding oracle in PKCS7_dataDecode() and
CMS_decrypt_set1_pkey().

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.0.2t-1~deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssl1.0 packages.

For the detailed security status of openssl1.0 please refer to
its security tracker page at:

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



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Package: openssl1.0
CVE ID: CVE-2019-1547 CVE-2019-1563

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