Descripción: | Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory CLA-2002:513.
OpenSSL implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as full-strength general purpose cryptography functions. It's used (as a library) by several projects, like Apache, OpenSSH, Bind, OpenLDAP and many others clients and servers programs.
While conducting a security review of OpenSSL under the DARPA CHATS program[1], A.L Digital and The Bunker found some buffer overflow vulnerabilities in OpenSSL prior to (and including) versions 0.9.6e and 0.9.7-beta2 (development).
Neophasis consultants indenpendently discovered one of these buffer overflows and demonstrated that it was exploitable, although the exploit is not released at this time.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names CVE-2002-0655, CVE-2002-0656 and CVE-2002-0657 to these issues.
Adi Stav and James Yonan independently found another vulnerability which affects the ASN.1 parser.
This update fix these vulnerabilites and also adds various sanity checks to avoid potential buffer overflows.
A complete advisory provided by the OpenSSL team is available[2] in their website.
Solution: The apt tool can be used to perform RPM package upgrades by running 'apt-get update' followed by 'apt-get upgrade'
http://www.darpa.mil/ito/research/chats http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20020730.txt http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-0655 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-0656 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-0657 http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=CLA-2002:513 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=002002
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score: 7.5
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