| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'openssl' package(s) announced via the DSA-3413-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:
CVE-2015-3194
Loic Jonas Etienne of Qnective AG discovered that the signature verification routines will crash with a NULL pointer dereference if presented with an ASN.1 signature using the RSA PSS algorithm and absent mask generation function parameter. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw to crash any certificate verification operation and mount a denial of service attack.
CVE-2015-3195
Adam Langley of Google/BoringSSL discovered that OpenSSL will leak memory when presented with a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure.
CVE-2015-3196
A race condition flaw in the handling of PSK identify hints was discovered, potentially leading to a double free of the identify hint data.
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1k-3+deb8u2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.2e-1 or earlier.
We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.
Affected Software/OS:
'openssl' package(s) on Debian 7, Debian 8.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
5.0
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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