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Gentoo: GLSA-201312-03 Low: OpenSSL Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey December 3, 2013
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Minor caution issued regarding OpenSSL flaws leading to potential key leakage and service disruptions. Update is advised.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL allowing remote attackers to determine private keys or cause a Denial of Service.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo key exposure remote attack OpenSSL Denial of Service

Resolution

All OpenSSL 1.0.x users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.0j"
All OpenSSL 0.9.8 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8y"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2006-7250 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-7250 [ 2 ] CVE-2011-1945 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1945 [ 3 ] CVE-2012-0884 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0884 [ 4 ] CVE-2012-1165 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1165 [ 5 ] CVE-2012-2110 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2110 [ 6 ] CVE-2012-2333 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2333 [ 7 ] CVE-2012-2686 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2686 [ 8 ] CVE-2013-0166 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-0166 [ 9 ] CVE-2013-0169 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-0169

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201312-03
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: Low
Title: OpenSSL: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: December 03, 2013
Bugs: #369753, #406199, #412643, #415435, #455592
ID: 201312-03

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo key exposure remote attack OpenSSL Denial of Service

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL allowing remote attackers to determine private keys or cause a Denial of Service.

Background

OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a general purpose cryptography library.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/openssl < 1.0.0i *>= 0.9.8y *>= 1.0.0j 2 dev-libs/openssl < 0.9.8y Vulnerable! ------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate to another package if one is available or wait for the existing packages to be marked stable by their architecture maintainers. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages

Impact

===== Remote attackers can determine private keys, decrypt data, cause a Denial of Service or possibly have other unspecified impact.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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