Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3773-1 openssl -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 27 Jan 2017
- Affected Packages:
- openssl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-7056, CVE-2016-8610, CVE-2017-3731.
- More information:
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Several vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenSSL:
- CVE-2016-7056
A local timing attack was discovered against ECDSA P-256.
- CVE-2016-8610
It was discovered that no limit was imposed on alert packets during an SSL handshake.
- CVE-2017-3731
Robert Swiecki discovered that the RC4-MD5 cipher when running on 32 bit systems could be forced into an out-of-bounds read, resulting in denial of service.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1t-1+deb8u6.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.0d-1 of the openssl source package and in version 1.0.2k-1 of the openssl1.0 source package.
We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.
- CVE-2016-7056