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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4539-1 openssl -- security update

Date Reported:

01 Oct 2019

Affected Packages:

openssl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-1547, CVE-2019-1549, CVE-2019-1563.

More information:

Three security issues were discovered in OpenSSL: A timing attack against ECDSA, a padding oracle in PKCS7_dataDecode() and CMS_decrypt_set1_pkey() and it was discovered that a feature of the random number generator (RNG) intended to protect against shared RNG state between parent and child processes in the event of a fork() syscall was not used by default.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.0l-1~deb9u1.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.1d-0+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.

For the detailed security status of openssl please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/openssl