USN-1451-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1451-1

24th May, 2012

openssl vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 11.10
  • Ubuntu 11.04
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Summary

Applications using OpenSSL in certain situations could be made to crash or expose sensitive information.

Software description

  • openssl - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic library and tools

Details

Ivan Nestlerode discovered that the Cryptographic Message Syntax
(CMS) and PKCS #7 implementations in OpenSSL returned early if RSA
decryption failed. This could allow an attacker to expose sensitive
information via a Million Message Attack (MMA). (CVE-2012-0884)

It was discovered that an integer underflow was possible when using
TLS 1.1, TLS 1.2, or DTLS with CBC encryption. This could allow a
remote attacker to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2333)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libssl1.0.0 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.2
openssl 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.2
Ubuntu 11.10:
libssl1.0.0 1.0.0e-2ubuntu4.6
openssl 1.0.0e-2ubuntu4.6
Ubuntu 11.04:
libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-5ubuntu1.7
openssl 0.9.8o-5ubuntu1.7
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
libssl0.9.8 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.13
openssl 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.13
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.19
openssl 0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.19

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2012-0884, CVE-2012-2333