Debian Security Advisory DSA 3053-1 (openssl - Security Update) Network Vulnerability

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL, the Secure Sockets Layer library and toolkit. CVE-2014-3513 A memory leak flaw was found in the way OpenSSL parsed the DTLS Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) extension data. A remote attacker could send multiple specially crafted handshake messages to exhaust all available memory of an SSL/TLS or DTLS server. CVE-2014-3566 ('POODLE') A flaw was found in the way SSL 3.0 handled padding bytes when decrypting messages encrypted using block ciphers in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode. This flaw allows a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacker to decrypt a selected byte of a cipher text in as few as 256 tries if they are able to force a victim application to repeatedly send the same data over newly created SSL 3.0 connections. This update adds support for Fallback SCSV to mitigate this issue. CVE-2014-3567 A memory leak flaw was found in the way an OpenSSL handled failed session ticket integrity checks. A remote attacker could exhaust all available memory of an SSL/TLS or DTLS server by sending a large number of invalid session tickets to that server. CVE-2014-3568 When OpenSSL is configured with 'no-ssl3' as a build option, servers could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be configured to send them.

Solution

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u13. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1j-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.

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