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Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 1449-1] 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
Two issues were discovered in OpenSSL, the Secure Sockets Layer toolkit. CVE-2018-0732 Denial of service by a malicious server that sends a very large prime value to the client during TLS handshake. CVE-2018-0737 Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia and Luis Manuel Alvarez Tapia discovered that the OpenSSL RSA Key generation algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a cache timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to mount cache timing attacks during the RSA key generation process could recover the private key.
Affected Software
Affected Software
openssl on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1t-1+deb8u9. We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.