[Technik] [SECURITY] [DSA 1195-1] new openssl096 packages fix denial of service

Noèl Köthe noel at debian.org
Wed Oct 11 10:54:22 CEST 2006


Am Dienstag, den 10.10.2006, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Noah Meyerhans:

> Debian Security Advisory DSA-1195-1                security at debian.org
> http://www.debian.org/security/                         Noah Meyerhans
> October 10, 2006
> 
> Package        : openssl096
> Vulnerability  : denial of service (multiple)
> Problem-Type   : remote
> Debian-specific: no
> CVE ID         : CVE-2006-2940 CVE-2006-3738 CVE-2006-4343

openssl096 auf h01, h02, h03, acoma und wasco aktualisiert.

> For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
> version 0.9.6m-1sarge4

changelog:
openssl096 (0.9.6m-1sarge4) stable-security; urgency=high

  * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team
  * Correct patch for CVE-2006-2940 to avoid the possibility of dereferencing
    an uninitialized pointer.

 -- Noah Meyerhans <noahm at debian.org>  Mon,  2 Oct 2006 12:27:43 -0400

openssl096 (0.9.6m-1sarge3) stable-security; urgency=high

  * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team
  * Apply patch to fix a buffer overflow in the SSL_get_shared_ciphers
    function.  CVE-2006-3738
  * Apply patch to fix a denial of service in the SSLv2 client code
    whereby a malicious server could cause a client to crash.
    CVE-2006-4343
  * Apply patch to correct a potential denial of service attack when
    parsing ASN1 data from untrusted sources.  Certain types of public
    key can take a disproportionate amount of time to process, allowing
    an attacker to exhaust system resources.  CVE-2006-2940

 -- Noah Meyerhans <noahm at debian.org>  Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:30:31 -0400

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Noèl Köthe <noel debian.org>
Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org
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