openssl, openssl1.0 vulnerabilities

26 June 2018

openssl, openssl1.0 vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenSSL.

Software Description

• openssl - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic library and tools
• openssl1.0 - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic library and tools

Details

Keegan Ryan discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled ECDSA key generation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cache-timing attack and recover private ECDSA keys. (CVE-2018-0495)

Guido Vranken discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled very large prime values during a key agreement. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2018-0732)

Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia and Luis Manuel Alvarez Tapia discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled RSA key generation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cache-timing attack and recover private RSA keys. (CVE-2018-0737)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

libssl1.0.0 - 1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.1

libssl1.1 - 1.1.0g-2ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 17.10

libssl1.0.0 - 1.0.2g-1ubuntu13.6

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libssl1.0.0 - 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.13

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libssl1.0.0 - 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.26

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-2018-0495
• CVE-2018-0732
• CVE-2018-0737