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title: "CVE-2013-6450\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2013-6450

Publication date 1 January 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

The DTLS retransmission implementation in OpenSSL 1.0.0 before 1.0.0l and
1.0.1 before 1.0.1f does not properly maintain data structures for digest
and encryption contexts, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to
trigger the use of a different context and cause a denial of service
(application crash) by interfering with packet delivery, related to
ssl/d1\_both.c and ssl/t1\_enc.c.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-6450?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| openssl | 13.10 saucy | Fixed 1.0.1e-3ubuntu1.1 |
| 13.04 raring | Fixed 1.0.1c-4ubuntu8.2 |
| 12.10 quantal | Fixed 1.0.1c-3ubuntu2.6 |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Fixed 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.11 |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not affected |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)
* [Patch details](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-6450?format=md#patch-details)

## Notes

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### [mdeslaur](https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur)

only affects 1.0.0+

### Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)

| Package | Patch details |
| --- | --- |
| openssl | * Upstream:   <http://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=a6c62f0c25a756c263a80ce52afbae888028e986> * Upstream:   <http://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=34628967f1e65dc8f34e000f0f5518e21afbfc7b> * Upstream:   <http://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=f3dcc8411e518fb0835c7d72df4a58718205260d> |

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6450)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6450)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2013-6450)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6450)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-2079-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-2079-1)
+ OpenSSL vulnerabilities
+ 9 January 2014

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6450>