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Gentoo: GLSA-201601-05 Normal: OpenSSL Remote Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey January 30, 2016
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The Debian Security Announcement DSA-2016-031 highlights several weaknesses in OpenSSL that may lead to unauthorized information exposure from remote sources.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL, allowing remote attackers to disclose sensitive information and complete weak handshakes

Summary

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo remote access OpenSSL information exposure normal severity

Resolution

All OpenSSL users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.2f"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-3197 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3197 [ 2 ] CVE-2016-0701 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-0701 [ 3 ] OpenSSL Security Advisory [28th Jan 2016] https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20160128.txt

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201601-05
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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.

Severity: Normal
Title: OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 29, 2016
Bugs: #572854
ID: 201601-05

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo remote access OpenSSL information exposure normal severity

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL, allowing remote attackers to disclose sensitive information and complete weak handshakes.

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 < 1.0.2f >= 1.0.2f

Impact

===== A remote attacker could disclose a server's private DH exponent, or complete SSLv2 handshakes using ciphers that have been disabled on the server.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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