USN-353-2: OpenSSL vulnerability
5 October 2006
OpenSSL vulnerability
Releases
Details
USN-353-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. However, Mark J
Cox noticed that the applied patch for CVE-2006-2940 was flawed. This
update corrects that patch.
For reference, this is the relevant part of the original advisory:
Certain types of public key could take disproportionate amounts of
time to process. The library now limits the maximum key exponent
size to avoid Denial of Service attacks. (CVE-2006-2940)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 6.06
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libssl0.9.8
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0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.3
Ubuntu 5.10
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libssl0.9.7
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0.9.7g-1ubuntu1.5
Ubuntu 5.04
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libssl0.9.7
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0.9.7e-3ubuntu0.6
After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to
effect the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-353-1: libssl0.9.8, libssl0.9.7