| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'openssl' package(s) announced via the DSA-2454-2 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:
CVE-2012-0884
Ivan Nestlerode discovered a weakness in the CMS and PKCS #7 implementations that could allow an attacker to decrypt data via a Million Message Attack (MMA).
CVE-2012-1165
It was discovered that a NULL pointer could be dereferenced when parsing certain S/MIME messages, leading to denial of service.
CVE-2012-2110
Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, discovered a vulnerability in the way DER-encoded ASN.1 data is parsed that can result in a heap overflow.
Additionally, the fix for CVE-2011-4619 has been updated to address an issue with SGC handshakes.
Tomas Hoger, Red Hat, discovered that the fix for CVE-2012-2110 for the 0.9.8 series of OpenSSL was incomplete. It has been assigned the CVE-2012-2131 identifier.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.8o-4squeeze12.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1a-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.
Affected Software/OS:
'openssl' package(s) on Debian 6.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
7.5
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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