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USN-1732-3: OpenSSL vulnerability

25 March 2013

Several security issues were fixed in OpenSSL.

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Releases

Packages

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

Details

USN-1732-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. The fix for CVE-2013-0169 and
CVE-2012-2686 was reverted in USN-1732-2 because of a regression. This
update restores the security fix, and includes an extra fix from upstream
to address the AES-NI regression. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Adam Langley and Wolfgang Ettlingers discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly
handled certain crafted CBC data when used with AES-NI. A remote attacker
could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of
service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10.
(CVE-2012-2686)

Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson discovered that the TLS protocol as used
in OpenSSL was vulnerable to a timing side-channel attack known as the
"Lucky Thirteen" issue. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform
plaintext-recovery attacks via analysis of timing data. (CVE-2013-0169)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04

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

References

Related notices

  • USN-1732-1: libssl0.9.8, libssl1.0.0, openssl
  • USN-1735-1: openjdk-7-jre-zero, openjdk-7-jre-lib, openjdk-6, icedtea-6-jre-jamvm, icedtea-7-jre-cacao, openjdk-6-jre-lib, openjdk-7-jre-headless, openjdk-7-jre, openjdk-7, icedtea-7-jre-jamvm, icedtea-6-jre-cacao, openjdk-6-jre, openjdk-6-jre-headless, openjdk-6-jre-zero