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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2454-2 (openssl)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

11 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

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.

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