Debian Security Advisory DSA 3116-1 (polarssl - Security Update) Network Vulnerability

Summary

It was discovered that a memory leak in parsing X.509 certificates may result in denial of service.

Solution

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.9-1~deb7u4. For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.9-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.9-1. We recommend that you upgrade your polarssl packages.

Insight

PolarSSL is a fork of the abandonned project XySSL. It is a lean crypto library providing SSL and TLS support in your programs.

Affected

polarssl on Debian Linux

Detection

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

References