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Ubuntu update for openssl


Secunia ID

SA48899

CVE-ID

CVE-2006-7250, CVE-2012-1165, CVE-2012-2110

Release Date

20 Apr 2012

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Description

Ubuntu has issued an update for openssl. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA46958 (#2)
SA48153
SA48847

Solution

Apply updated packages.

-- Ubuntu 11.10 --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/1.0.0e-2ubuntu4.4

-- Ubuntu 11.04 --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/0.9.8o-5ubuntu1.4

-- Ubuntu 10.04 --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.10

-- Ubuntu 8.04 --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.17

Original Advisory

USN-1424-1:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1424-1/