Multiple security issues have been fixed in OpenSSL: The TLS 1.2 support was susceptible to denial of service and retransmission of DTLS messages was fixed. In addition this update disables the insecure Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm (which was unused anyway, see http://marc.info/?l=openssl-announce&m=138747119822324&w=2 for further information) and no longer uses the RdRand feature available on some Intel CPUs as a sole source of entropy unless explicitly requested.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1e-5. We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.

This package contains the openssl binary and related tools.

openssl on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2833.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25