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Red Hat: RHSA-2015:0800-01 Moderate: OpenSSL Remote Attack Risk

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Calendar Grey April 13, 2015
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Recent safety patch for OpenSSL in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 resolves several vulnerabilities. Updating is advised.
Updated openssl packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate securi...

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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 OpenSSL would accept ephemeral RSA keys when using non-export RSA cipher suites. A malicious server could make a TLS/SSL client using OpenSSL use a weaker key exchange method. (CVE-2015-0204)
An integer underflow flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the way OpenSSL decoded malformed Base64-encoded inputs. An attacker able to make an application using OpenSSL decode a specially crafted Base64-encoded input (such as a PEM file) could use this flaw to cause the application to crash. Note: this flaw is not exploitable via the TLS/SSL protocol because the data being transferred is not Base64-encoded. (CVE-2015-0292)
A denial of service flaw was found in the way OpenSSL handled SSLv2 handshake messages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a TLS/SSL server using OpenSSL to exit on a failed assertion if it had both the SSLv2 protocol and EXPORT-grade cipher suites enabled. (CVE-2015-0293)
Multiple flaws were found in the way OpenSSL parsed X.509 certificates. An attacker could use these flaws to modify an X.509 certificate to produce a certificate with a different fingerprint without invalidating its signature, and possibly bypass fingerprint-based blacklisting in applications. (CVE-2014-8275)
An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way OpenSSL reused certain ASN.1 structures. A remote attacker could possibly use a specially crafted ASN.1 structure that, when parsed by an application, would cause that application to crash. (CVE-2015-0287)
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in OpenSSL's X.509 certificate handling implementation. A specially crafted X.509 certificate could cause an application using OpenSSL to crash if the application attempted to convert the certificate to a certificate request. (CVE-2015-0288)
A NULL pointer dereference was found in the way OpenSSL handled certain PKCS#7 inputs. An attacker able to make an application using OpenSSL verify, decrypt, or parse a specially crafted PKCS#7 input could cause that application to crash. TLS/SSL clients and servers using OpenSSL were not affected by this flaw. (CVE-2015-0289)
Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting CVE-2015-0287, CVE-2015-0288, CVE-2015-0289, CVE-2015-0292, and CVE-2015-0293. Upstream acknowledges Emilia Käsper of the OpenSSL development team as the original reporter of CVE-2015-0287, Brian Carpenter as the original reporter of CVE-2015-0288, Michal Zalewski of Google as the original reporter of CVE-2015-0289, Robert Dugal and David Ramos as the original reporters of CVE-2015-0292, and Sean Burford of Google and Emilia Käsper of the OpenSSL development team as the original reporters of CVE-2015-0293.
All openssl users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct 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-2014-8275 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0204 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0287 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0288 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0289 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0292 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0293 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/articles/1384453

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source: openssl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: openssl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i386.rpm openssl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i686.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i386.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i686.rpm openssl-perl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: openssl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i686.rpm openssl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.x86_64.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i686.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.x86_64.rpm openssl-perl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source: openssl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i386.rpm openssl-devel-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i386.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.x86_64.rpm openssl-devel-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i386.rpm openssl-devel-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source: openssl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: openssl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i386.rpm openssl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i686.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i386.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i686.rpm openssl-devel-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i386.rpm openssl-perl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i386.rpm
ia64: openssl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i686.rpm openssl-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.ia64.rpm openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-33.el5_11.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:0800-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2015-04-13

Topic

Updated openssl packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate securityimpact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which givedetailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from theCVE 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

1180184 - CVE-2015-0204 openssl: only allow ephemeral RSA keys in export ciphersuites (FREAK)

1180187 - CVE-2014-8275 openssl: Fix various certificate fingerprint issues

1202380 - CVE-2015-0287 openssl: ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption

1202384 - CVE-2015-0289 openssl: PKCS7 NULL pointer dereference

1202395 - CVE-2015-0292 openssl: integer underflow leading to buffer overflow in base64 decoding

1202404 - CVE-2015-0293 openssl: assertion failure in SSLv2 servers1202418 - CVE-2015-0288 openssl: X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer dereference

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