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Posted on 23 January 2012
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2392-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer
January 23, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : openssl
Vulnerability : out-of-bounds read
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2012-0050
Antonio Martin discovered a denial-of-service vulnerability in
OpenSSL, an implementation of TLS and related protocols. A malicious
client can cause the DTLS server implementation to crash. Regular,
TCP-based TLS is not affected by this issue.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.8g-15+lenny16.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.8o-4squeeze7.
For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.0g-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
