Rob Hulswit discovered a race condition in the OpenSSL TLS server extension parsing code when used within a threaded server. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges. (CVE-2010-3864)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
18 November 2010
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Rob Hulswit discovered a race condition in the OpenSSL TLS server extension parsing code when used within a threaded server. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges. (CVE-2010-3864)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.
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