Debian Security Advisory DSA 2837-1 (openssl - Programming Error) Network Vulnerability

Summary

Anton Johansson discovered that an invalid TLS handshake package could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer dereference. The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected.

Solution

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u3. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1f-1. We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.

Insight

This package contains the openssl binary and related tools.

Affected

openssl on Debian Linux

Detection

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

References