Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2621-1 openssl -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 13 Feb 2013
- Affected Packages:
- openssl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 699889.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-0166, CVE-2013-0169. - More information:
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:
- CVE-2013-0166
OpenSSL does not properly perform signature verification for OCSP responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an invalid key.
- CVE-2013-0169
A timing side channel attack has been found in CBC padding allowing an attacker to recover pieces of plaintext via statistical analysis of crafted packages, known as the
Lucky Thirteen
issue.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.8o-4squeeze14.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1e-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.
- CVE-2013-0166