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USN-830-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

14 September 2009

OpenSSL vulnerability

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Releases

Packages

Details

Dan Kaminsky discovered OpenSSL would still accept certificates with MD2
hash signatures. As a result, an attacker could potentially create a
malicious trusted certificate to impersonate another site. This update
handles this issue by completely disabling MD2 for certificate validation.

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 6.06

After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to
effect the necessary changes.

References

Related notices

  • USN-810-1: libnss3-1d, nss
  • USN-859-1: openjdk-6-jre, icedtea6-plugin, openjdk-6
  • USN-809-1: gnutls26, libgnutls13, libgnutls12, gnutls12, gnutls13, libgnutls26