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[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 201203-12 ] OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Posted on 06 March 2012
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201203-12
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: March 06, 2012
Bugs: #397695, #399365
ID: 201203-12

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL, allowing remote
attackers to cause a Denial of Service or obtain sensitive information.

Background
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OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a general
purpose cryptography library.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-libs/openssl < 1.0.0g *>= 0.9.8t
>= 1.0.0g

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL:

* Timing differences for decryption are exposed by CBC mode encryption
in OpenSSL's implementation of DTLS (CVE-2011-4108).
* A policy check failure can result in a double-free error when
X509_V_FLAG_POLICY_CHECK is set (CVE-2011-4109).
* Clients and servers using SSL 3.0 handshakes do not clear the block
cipher padding, allowing a record to contain up to 15 bytes of
uninitialized memory, which could include sensitive information
(CVE-2011-4576).
* Assertion errors can occur during the handling of malformed X.509
certificates when OpenSSL is built with RFC 3779 support
(CVE-2011-4577).
* A resource management error can occur when OpenSSL's server gated
cryptography (SGC) does not properly handle handshake restarts
(CVE-2011-4619).
* Invalid parameters in the GOST block cipher are not properly handled
by the GOST ENGINE(CVE-2012-0027).
* An incorrect fix for CVE-2011-4108 creates an unspecified
vulnerability for DTLS applications using OpenSSL (CVE-2012-0050).

Impact
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A remote attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service or obtain
sensitive information, including plaintext passwords.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All OpenSSL users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.0g"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2011-4108
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4108
[ 2 ] CVE-2011-4109
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4109
[ 3 ] CVE-2011-4576
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4576
[ 4 ] CVE-2011-4577
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4577
[ 5 ] CVE-2011-4619
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4619
[ 6 ] CVE-2012-0027
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0027
[ 7 ] CVE-2012-0050
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0050

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-12.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2012 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5


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