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Debian Security Advisory DSA 4475-1 (openssl - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'openssl' package(s) announced via the DSA-4475-1 advisory.
Insight
Insight
Joran Dirk Greef discovered that overly long nonces used with ChaCha20-Poly1305 were incorrectly processed and could result in nonce reuse. This doesn't affect OpenSSL-internal uses of ChaCha20-Poly1305 such as TLS.
Affected Software
Affected Software
'openssl' package(s) on Debian Linux.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.0k-1~deb9u1. This DSA also upgrades openssl1.0 (which itself is not affected by CVE-2019-1543) to 1.0.2s-1~deb9u1 We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.