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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2309-1 (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 2309-1.
Insight
Insight
Several fraudulent SSL certificates have been found in the wild issued by the DigiNotar Certificate Authority, obtained through a security compromise of said company. After further updates on this incident, it has been determined that all of DigiNotar's signing certificates can no longer be trusted. Debian, like other software distributors and vendors, has decided to distrust all of DigiNotar's CAs. In this update, this is done in the crypto library (a component of the OpenSSL toolkit) by marking such certificates as revoked. Any application that uses said component should now reject certificates signed by DigiNotar. Individual applications may allow users to override the validation failure. However, making exceptions is highly discouraged and should be carefully verified. Additionally, a vulnerability has been found in the ECDHE_ECDS cipher where timing attacks make it easier to determine private keys. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies it as CVE-2011-1945. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.8g-15+lenny12. For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.8o-4squeeze2. For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.0e-1.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.