USN-1428-1: OpenSSL vulnerability
24 April 2012
An application using OpenSSL could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- openssl - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic library and tools
Details
It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2012-2110 was incomplete for OpenSSL
0.9.8. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw in services that used SSL
to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with
application privileges. Ubuntu 11.10 was not affected by this issue.
(CVE-2012-2131)
The original upstream fix for CVE-2012-2110 would cause BUF_MEM_grow_clean()
to sometimes return the wrong error condition. This update fixes the
problem.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.04
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.