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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4875-1 openssl -- security update

Date Reported:

25 Mar 2021

Affected Packages:

openssl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-3449.

More information:

A NULL pointer dereference was found in the signature_algorithms processing in OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit, which could result in denial of service.

Additional details can be found in the upstream advisory: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210325.txt

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.1d-0+deb10u6.

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