USN-1018-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• openssl -

Details

Rob Hulswit discovered a race condition in the OpenSSL TLS server
extension parsing code when used within a threaded server. A remote
attacker could trigger this flaw to cause a denial of service
or possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges.
(CVE-2010-3864)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10

• libssl0.9.8 - 0.9.8g-16ubuntu3.4

Ubuntu 8.04

• libssl0.9.8 - 0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.12

Ubuntu 10.10

• libssl0.9.8 - 0.9.8o-1ubuntu4.2

Ubuntu 10.04

• libssl0.9.8 - 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.4

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

References

• CVE-2010-3864