openssl vulnerabilities

7 December 2015

openssl vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenSSL.

Software Description

• openssl - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic library and tools

Details

Guy Leaver discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled a ServerKeyExchange for an anonymous DH ciphersuite with the value of p set to 0. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-1794)

Hanno Böck discovered that the OpenSSL Montgomery squaring procedure algorithm may produce incorrect results when being used on x86_64. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to break encryption. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-3193)

Loïc Jonas Etienne discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled ASN.1 signatures with a missing PSS parameter. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-3194)

Adam Langley discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structures. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-3195)

It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled PSK identity hints. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-3196)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.10

libssl1.0.0 - 1.0.2d-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 15.04

libssl1.0.0 - 1.0.1f-1ubuntu11.5

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libssl1.0.0 - 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.16

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

libssl1.0.0 - 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.32

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.

References

• CVE-2015-1794
• CVE-2015-3193
• CVE-2015-3194
• CVE-2015-3195
• CVE-2015-3196