Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2782-1 polarssl -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 20 Oct 2013
- Affected Packages:
- polarssl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4623, CVE-2013-5914, CVE-2013-5915.
- More information:
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Multiple security issues have been discovered in PolarSSL, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library:
- CVE-2013-4623
Jack Lloyd discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the parsing of PEM-encoded certificates.
- CVE-2013-5914
Paul Brodeur and TrustInSoft discovered a buffer overflow in the ssl_read_record() function, allowing the potential execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2013-5915
Cyril Arnaud and Pierre-Alain Fouque discovered timing attacks against the RSA implementation.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems will be fixed in version 1.2.9-1~deb6u1 soon (due to a technical limitation the updates cannot be released synchronously).
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.9-1~deb7u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your polarssl packages.
- CVE-2013-4623