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USN-4376-2: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

9 July 2020

Several security issues were fixed in OpenSSL.

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Releases

Packages

  • openssl - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic library and tools

Details

USN-4376-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Cesar Pereida GarcĂ­a, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri, Iaroslav Gridin,
Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya, and Billy Brumley discovered that OpenSSL
incorrectly handled ECDSA signatures. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to perform a timing side-channel attack and recover private ECDSA
keys. (CVE-2019-1547)

Juraj Somorovsky, Robert Merget, and Nimrod Aviram discovered that certain
applications incorrectly used OpenSSL and could be exposed to a padding
oracle attack. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to decrypt
data. (CVE-2019-1559)

Bernd Edlinger discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain
decryption functions. In certain scenarios, a remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to perform a padding oracle attack and decrypt
traffic. (CVE-2019-1563)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

Related notices

  • USN-4376-1: libssl1.1-udeb, libssl1.1, libssl-doc, libssl1.0.0, libcrypto1.1-udeb, libssl1.0.0-udeb, libcrypto1.0.0-udeb, libssl-dev, openssl
  • USN-4504-1: libssl1.0-dev, libssl-doc, libssl1.0.0, libssl1.0.0-udeb, libcrypto1.0.0-udeb, libssl-dev, openssl1.0, openssl
  • USN-3899-1: libssl1.0-dev, libssl-doc, libssl1.0.0, libssl1.0.0-udeb, libcrypto1.0.0-udeb, libssl-dev, openssl1.0, openssl