It was discovered that OpenSSL did not correctly perform Montgomery multiplications. Local attackers might be able to reconstruct RSA private keys by examining another user’s OpenSSL processes. (CVE-2007-3108)
Moritz Jodeit discovered that OpenSSL’s SSL_get_shared_ciphers function did not correctly check the size of the buffer it was writing to. A remote attacker could exploit this to write one NULL byte past the end of an application’s cipher list buffer, possibly leading to arbitrary code execution or a denial of service. (CVE-2007-5135)
28 September 2007
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
It was discovered that OpenSSL did not correctly perform Montgomery multiplications. Local attackers might be able to reconstruct RSA private keys by examining another user’s OpenSSL processes. (CVE-2007-3108)
Moritz Jodeit discovered that OpenSSL’s SSL_get_shared_ciphers function did not correctly check the size of the buffer it was writing to. A remote attacker could exploit this to write one NULL byte past the end of an application’s cipher list buffer, possibly leading to arbitrary code execution or a denial of service. (CVE-2007-5135)
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 upgrade you need to reboot your computer to effect the necessary changes.
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