USN-1451-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities
24 May 2012
Applications using OpenSSL in certain situations could be made to crash or expose sensitive information.
Releases
Packages
- openssl - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic library and tools
Details
Ivan Nestlerode discovered that the Cryptographic Message Syntax
(CMS) and PKCS #7 implementations in OpenSSL returned early if RSA
decryption failed. This could allow an attacker to expose sensitive
information via a Million Message Attack (MMA). (CVE-2012-0884)
It was discovered that an integer underflow was possible when using
TLS 1.1, TLS 1.2, or DTLS with CBC encryption. This could allow a
remote attacker to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2333)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.04
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.