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USN-5051-3: OpenSSL vulnerability

26 August 2021

OpenSSL could be made to crash or expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted ASN.1 string.

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Releases

Packages

  • openssl1.0 - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic library and tools

Details

USN-5051-1 fixed a vulnerability in OpenSSL. This update provides the
corresponding update for the openssl1.0 package in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

Ingo Schwarze discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain ASN.1
strings. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information.
(CVE-2021-3712)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04

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

References

Related notices

  • USN-5051-1: libssl1.1, libssl-doc, libssl-dev, openssl
  • USN-5051-2: libssl1.0.0, libssl-doc, libssl-dev, openssl
  • USN-5088-1: qemu-efi, ovmf-ia32, edk2, qemu-efi-arm, ovmf, qemu-efi-aarch64