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openSUSE 13.1: 2016:0638-1 Important: openssl DROWN DoS Attack

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Calendar Grey March 2, 2016
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The latest OpenSSL patch fixes several critical vulnerabilities related to Denial-of-Service (DoS) and DROWN assaults, specifically targeting systems running openSUSE.
An update that contains security fixes can now be installed

Description

This update for openssl fixes various security issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2016-0800 aka the "DROWN" attack (bsc#968046): OpenSSL was

vulnerable to a cross-protocol attack that could lead to decryption of

TLS sessions by using a server supporting SSLv2 and EXPORT cipher suites

as a Bleichenbacher RSA padding oracle.

This update changes the openssl library to:

* Disable SSLv2 protocol support by default.

This can be overridden by setting the environment variable

"OPENSSL_ALLOW_SSL2" or by using SSL_CTX_clear_options using the

SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2 flag.

Note that various services and clients had already disabled SSL

protocol 2 by default previously.

* Disable all weak EXPORT ciphers by default. These can be reenabled if

required by old legacy software using the environment variable

"OPENSSL_ALLOW_EXPORT".

- CVE-2016-0702 aka the "CacheBleed" attack. (bsc#968050) Various changes

in the...

Read the Full Advisory

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch 2016-292=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

libopenssl-devel-1.0.1k-11.84.1

libopenssl1_0_0-1.0.1k-11.84.1

libopenssl1_0_0-debuginfo-1.0.1k-11.84.1

openssl-1.0.1k-11.84.1

openssl-debuginfo-1.0.1k-11.84.1

openssl-debugsource-1.0.1k-11.84.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

libopenssl-devel-32bit-1.0.1k-11.84.1

libopenssl1_0_0-32bit-1.0.1k-11.84.1

libopenssl1_0_0-debuginfo-32bit-1.0.1k-11.84.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (noarch):

openssl-doc-1.0.1k-11.84.1

References

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0638-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 .

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