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USN-6119-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

30 May 2023

Several security issues were fixed in OpenSSL.

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Releases

Packages

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

Details

Matt Caswell discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain ASN.1
object identifiers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause OpenSSL to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2023-2650)

Anton Romanov discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled AES-XTS cipher
decryption on 64-bit ARM platforms. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.10, and Ubuntu 23.04.
(CVE-2023-1255)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 23.04
Ubuntu 22.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

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

Related notices

  • USN-6188-1: libssl-dev, libssl-doc, openssl, libssl1.0.0
  • USN-6672-1: libnode108, libnode-dev, libnode64, libnode72, nodejs-doc, nodejs