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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3773-1 (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
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenSSL: CVE-2016-7056 A local timing attack was discovered against ECDSA P-256. CVE-2016-8610 It was discovered that no limit was imposed on alert packets during an SSL handshake. CVE-2017-3731 Robert Swiecki discovered that the RC4-MD5 cipher when running on 32 bit systems could be forced into an out-of-bounds read, resulting in denial of service.
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 the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1t-1+deb8u6. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.0d-1 of the openssl source package and in version 1.0.2k-1 of the openssl1.0 source package. We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.