DSA-3053-1 openssl -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-3513   CVE-2014-3566   CVE-2014-3567   CVE-2014-3568  

Several vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL, the Secure Sockets Layer library and toolkit. CVE-2014-3513 A memory leak flaw was found in the way OpenSSL parsed the DTLS Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) extension data. A remote attacker could send multiple specially crafted handshake messages to exhaust all available memory of an SSL/TLS or DTLS server. CVE-2014-3566 ("POODLE") A flaw was found in the way SSL 3.0 handled padding bytes when decrypting messages encrypted using block ciphers in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode. This flaw allows a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacker to decrypt a selected byte of a cipher text in as few as 256 tries if they are able to force a victim application to repeatedly send the same data over newly created SSL 3.0 connections. This update adds support for Fallback SCSV to mitigate this issue. CVE-2014-3567 A memory leak flaw was found in the way an OpenSSL handled failed session ticket integrity checks. A remote attacker could exhaust all available memory of an SSL/TLS or DTLS server by sending a large number of invalid session tickets to that server. CVE-2014-3568 When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be configured to send them. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u13. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1j-1. We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3053-1 openssl -- security update

Date Reported:
16 Oct 2014
Affected Packages:
openssl
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-3513, CVE-2014-3566, CVE-2014-3567, CVE-2014-3568.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL, the Secure Sockets Layer library and toolkit.

  • CVE-2014-3513

    A memory leak flaw was found in the way OpenSSL parsed the DTLS Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) extension data. A remote attacker could send multiple specially crafted handshake messages to exhaust all available memory of an SSL/TLS or DTLS server.

  • CVE-2014-3566 ("POODLE")

    A flaw was found in the way SSL 3.0 handled padding bytes when decrypting messages encrypted using block ciphers in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode. This flaw allows a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacker to decrypt a selected byte of a cipher text in as few as 256 tries if they are able to force a victim application to repeatedly send the same data over newly created SSL 3.0 connections.

    This update adds support for Fallback SCSV to mitigate this issue.

  • CVE-2014-3567

    A memory leak flaw was found in the way an OpenSSL handled failed session ticket integrity checks. A remote attacker could exhaust all available memory of an SSL/TLS or DTLS server by sending a large number of invalid session tickets to that server.

  • CVE-2014-3568

    When OpenSSL is configured with "no-ssl3" as a build option, servers could accept and complete a SSL 3.0 handshake, and clients could be configured to send them.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u13.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1j-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.