MGASA-2014-0325

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MGASA-2014-0325

Summary: Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerabilities

Details: A flaw in OBJ_obj2txt may cause pretty printing functions such as X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex et al. to leak some information from the stack. Applications may be affected if they echo pretty printing output to the attacker. OpenSSL SSL/TLS clients and servers themselves are not affected (CVE-2014-3508). The issue affects OpenSSL clients and allows a malicious server to crash the client with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an SRP ciphersuite even though it was not properly negotiated with the client. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack (CVE-2014-5139). If a multithreaded client connects to a malicious server using a resumed session and the server sends an ec point format extension it could write up to 255 bytes to freed memory (CVE-2014-3509). An attacker can force an error condition which causes openssl to crash whilst processing DTLS packets due to memory being freed twice. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack (CVE-2014-3505). An attacker can force openssl to consume large amounts of memory whilst processing DTLS handshake messages. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack (CVE-2014-3506). By sending carefully crafted DTLS packets an attacker could cause openssl to leak memory. This can be exploited through a Denial of Service attack (CVE-2014-3507). OpenSSL DTLS clients enabling anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuites are subject to a denial of service attack. A malicious server can crash the client with a null pointer dereference (read) by specifying an anonymous (EC)DH ciphersuite and sending carefully crafted handshake messages (CVE-2014-3510). A flaw in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code causes the server to negotiate TLS 1.0 instead of higher protocol versions when the ClientHello message is badly fragmented. This allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to force a downgrade to TLS 1.0 even if both the server and the client support a higher protocol version, by modifying the client's TLS records (CVE-2014-3511). A malicious client or server can send invalid SRP parameters and overrun an internal buffer. Only applications which are explicitly set up for SRP use are affected (CVE-2014-3512).

References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0325.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13874, http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140806.txt, https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2998