news 28 Posted September 25, 2016 Package : openssl Version : 1.0.1t-1+deb7u1 CVE ID : CVE-2016-2177 CVE-2016-2178 CVE-2016-2179 CVE-2016-2180 CVE-2016-2181 CVE-2016-2182 CVE-2016-6302 CVE-2016-6303 CVE-2016-6304 CVE-2016-6306 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenSSL: CVE-2016-2177 Guido Vranken discovered that OpenSSL uses undefined pointer arithmetic. Additional information can be found at https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2016/06/27/undefined-pointer-arithmetic/ CVE-2016-2178 Cesar Pereida, Billy Brumley and Yuval Yarom discovered a timing leak in the DSA code. CVE-2016-2179 / CVE-2016-2181 Quan Luo and the OCAP audit team discovered denial of service vulnerabilities in DTLS. CVE-2016-2180 / CVE-2016-2182 / CVE-2016-6303 Shi Lei discovered an out-of-bounds memory read in TS_OBJ_print_bio() and an out-of-bounds write in BN_bn2dec() and MDC2_Update(). CVE-2016-2183 DES-based cipher suites are demoted from the HIGH group to MEDIUM as a mitigation for the SWEET32 attack. CVE-2016-6302 Shi Lei discovered that the use of SHA512 in TLS session tickets is susceptible to denial of service. CVE-2016-6304 Shi Lei discovered that excessively large OCSP status request may result in denial of service via memory exhaustion. CVE-2016-6306 Shi Lei discovered that missing message length validation when parsing certificates may potentially result in denial of service. For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1t-1+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your openssl and libssl1.0.0 packages. Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS Share this post Link to post
