ALAS-2019-1153

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-0734  

The OpenSSL DSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing algorithm to recover the private key. (CVE-2018-0734)

ALAS-2019-1153


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1153
Advisory Release Date: 2019-03-21 18:40 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-03-25 23:11 Pacific
Severity: Low
References: CVE-2018-0734 

Issue Overview:

The OpenSSL DSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing algorithm to recover the private key. (CVE-2018-0734)


Affected Packages:

openssl


Issue Correction:
Run yum update openssl to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.148.amzn1.i686
    openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.148.amzn1.i686
    openssl-perl-1.0.2k-16.148.amzn1.i686
    openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.148.amzn1.i686
    openssl-1.0.2k-16.148.amzn1.i686

src:
    openssl-1.0.2k-16.148.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    openssl-1.0.2k-16.148.amzn1.x86_64
    openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.148.amzn1.x86_64
    openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.148.amzn1.x86_64
    openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.148.amzn1.x86_64
    openssl-perl-1.0.2k-16.148.amzn1.x86_64