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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3468-1 polarssl -- security update

Date Reported:

06 Feb 2016

Affected Packages:

polarssl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 801413.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-5291, CVE-2015-8036.

More information:

It was discovered that polarssl, a library providing SSL and TLS support, contained two heap-based buffer overflows that could allow a remote attacker to trigger denial of service (via application crash) or arbitrary code execution.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.9-1~deb7u6.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.9-2.1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your polarssl packages.