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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2162-1 (openssl)
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 to openssl announced via advisory DSA 2162-1.
Insight
Insight
Neel Mehta discovered that an incorrectly formatted ClientHello handshake message could cause OpenSSL to parse past the end of the message. This allows an attacker to crash an application using OpenSSL by triggering an invalid memory access. Additionally, some applications may be vulnerable to expose contents of a parsed OCSP nonce extension. Packages in the oldstable distribution (lenny) are not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.8o-4squeeze1. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.8o-5. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.8o-5.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your invalid memory access packages.