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EnGarde Secure Linux Security Advisory: openssl vulnerabilities

May 02, 2001, 15:13 (0 Talkback[s]) 
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:38:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: EnGarde Secure Linux <security@guardiandigital.com>
Subject: [ESA-20010426-01] openssl vulnerabilities

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| EnGarde Secure Linux Security Advisory                    May 02, 2001 |
| http://www.engardelinux.org/                           ESA-20010426-01 |
|                                                                        |
| Package:  openssl                                                      |
| Summary:  There are four potential vulnerabilities in openssl.         |
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EnGarde Secure Linux is a secure distribution of Linux that features improved access control, host and network intrusion detection, Web based secure remote management, complete e-commerce using AllCommerce, and integrated open source security tools.

OVERVIEW

There are four potential vulnerabilities in the version of openssl which shipped with EnGarde Secure Linux version 1.0.1.

DETAIL

There were four security fixes introduced into openssl 0.9.6a. However, this release also broke binary compatibility with older versions of openssl. Thanks to Nalin Dahyabhai, these changes have been backported into openssl 0.9.6. This alleviates having to release updated packages for all of the programs that depend on openssl, such as openssh.

The security-related changes are (from the 0.9.6a announcement):

  • Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using environment variables when running as root.
  • Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly calculated signature.
  • Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
  • Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the master secret in DH ciphersuites.

SOLUTION

All users running 'openssl' should upgrade to the most recent version, as outlined in this advisory. All updates can be found at: 
    ftp://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/stable/updates/
    http://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/stable/updates/

To install the updated package, execute the command:

rpm -Uvh <filename>

To verify the signature of the updated packages, execute the command:

rpm -Kv <filename>

UPDATED PACKAGES

Source Packages:


    SRPMS/openssl-0.9.6-1.0.13.src.rpm
      MD5 Sum:  6e8134b6635a77bc6a9101438b50427a

  i386 Binary Packages:

    i386/openssl-0.9.6-1.0.13.i386.rpm
      MD5 Sum:  2a0f944722c27fd34d8549dae25b611d

    i386/openssl-misc-0.9.6-1.0.13.i386.rpm
      MD5 Sum:  59cb6c0fed182b2b5eb3789b2fffdae7

  i686 Binary Packages:

    i686/openssl-0.9.6-1.0.13.i686.rpm
      MD5 Sum:  7bdedd1a057f547cc59a56b35801c277

    i686/openssl-misc-0.9.6-1.0.13.i686.rpm
      MD5 Sum:  82aa05b124b35809f27d48f81418e3e0

REFERENCES

Guardian Digital's public key:
http://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/ENGARDE-GPG-KEY

OpenSSL's official web site:
http://www.openssl.org/

OpenSSL 0.9.6a announcement:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssl-announce&m=98655255404174&w=2

$Id: 2001.04.26-openssl,v 1.1 2001/04/26 15:18:29 rwm Exp $
Author: Ryan W. Maple, <ryan@guardiandigital.com> Copyright 2001, Guardian Digital, Inc.