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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702782
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2782-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'polarssl' package(s) announced via the DSA-2782-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'polarssl' package(s) announced via the DSA-2782-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Multiple security issues have been discovered in PolarSSL, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library:

CVE-2013-4623

Jack Lloyd discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the parsing of PEM-encoded certificates.

CVE-2013-5914

Paul Brodeur and TrustInSoft discovered a buffer overflow in the ssl_read_record() function, allowing the potential execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2013-5915

Cyril Arnaud and Pierre-Alain Fouque discovered timing attacks against the RSA implementation.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems will be fixed in version 1.2.9-1~
deb6u1 soon (due to a technical limitation the updates cannot be released synchronously).

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.9-1~
deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your polarssl packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'polarssl' package(s) on Debian 6, Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-4623
BugTraq ID: 61764
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61764
Debian Security Information: DSA-2782 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2782
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116351.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/115922.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/115927.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-5914
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-5915
BugTraq ID: 62771
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62771
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/118758.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/119014.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/119018.html
http://osvdb.org/98049
http://secunia.com/advisories/55084
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