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Red Hat 5: RHSA-2012:0060-01 Moderate: OpenSSL Remote Exploit

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Calendar Grey January 24, 2012
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Red Hat releases important security patch for OpenSSL, resolving several vulnerabilities. Users impacted are encouraged to update promptly.
Updated openssl packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Summary

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols, as well as a full-strength, general purpose cryptography library.
It was discovered that the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol implementation in OpenSSL leaked timing information when performing certain operations. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to retrieve plain text from the encrypted packets by using a DTLS server as a padding oracle. (CVE-2011-4108)
A double free flaw was discovered in the policy checking code in OpenSSL. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash an application that uses OpenSSL by providing an X.509 certificate that has specially-crafted policy extension data. (CVE-2011-4109)
An information leak flaw was found in the SSL 3.0 protocol implementation in OpenSSL. Incorrect initialization of SSL record padding bytes could cause an SSL client or server to send a limited amount of possibly sensitive data to its SSL peer via the encrypted connection. (CVE-2011-4576)
It was discovered that OpenSSL did not limit the number of TLS/SSL handshake restarts required to support Server Gated Cryptography. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server using OpenSSL consume an excessive amount of CPU by continuously restarting the handshake. (CVE-2011-4619)
All OpenSSL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. For the update to take effect, all services linked to the OpenSSL library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4108 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4109 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4576 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4619 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: openssl-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i386.rpm openssl-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i686.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i386.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i686.rpm openssl-perl-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
x86_64: openssl-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i686.rpm openssl-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i686.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm openssl-perl-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i386.rpm openssl-devel-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
x86_64: openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i386.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm openssl-devel-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i386.rpm openssl-devel-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: openssl-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i386.rpm openssl-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i686.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i386.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i686.rpm openssl-devel-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i386.rpm openssl-perl-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
ia64: openssl-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i686.rpm openssl-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.ia64.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.i686.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1.ia64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2012:0060-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2012-01-24

Topic

Updated openssl packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

771770 - CVE-2011-4108 openssl: DTLS plaintext recovery attack

771771 - CVE-2011-4109 openssl: double-free in policy checks

771775 - CVE-2011-4576 openssl: uninitialized SSL 3.0 padding

771780 - CVE-2011-4619 openssl: SGC restart DoS attack

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