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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2454-2 (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 2454-2.
Insight
Insight
Tomas Hoger, Red Hat, discovered that the fix for CVE-2012-2110 for the 0.9.8 series of OpenSSL was incomplete. It has been assigned the CVE-2012-2131 identifier. For reference, the original description of CVE-2012-2110 from DSA-2454-1 is quoted below: CVE-2012-2110 Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, discovered a vulnerability in the way DER-encoded ASN.1 data is parsed that can result in a heap overflow. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.8o-4squeeze12. The testing distribution (wheezy), and the unstable distribution (sid), are not affected by this issue.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.