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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2837-1 openssl -- programming error

Date Reported:

07 Jan 2014

Affected Packages:

openssl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4353.

More information:

Anton Johansson discovered that an invalid TLS handshake package could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer dereference.

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1f-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.