| Guardian Digital Security Advisory | November 04, 2003 |
| http://www.guardiandigital.com | ESA-20031104-029 |
| Packages: openssl, openssl-misc | |
| Summary: ASN.1 parsing denial of service. |
EnGarde Secure Linux is an enterprise class Linux platform
engineered to enable corporations to quickly and cost-effectively
build a complete and secure Internet presence while preventing
Internet threats.
OVERVIEW
On September 30, 2003, ESA-20030930-027 was released to address
ASN.1 parsing vulnerabilities discovered by a testing suite
developed by the NISCC (UK National Infrastructure Security
Co-Ordination Centre).
Novell, Inc. has performed further testing using this suite and
has discovered another potential denial of service attack. This
vulnerability (triggered by certain ASN.1 sequences which cause a
large recursion) is only believed to be exploitable as a denial of
service on the Windows platform at this time.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org/) has assigned the name
CAN-2003-0851 to this issue.
Guardian Digital products affected by this issue include:
EnGarde Secure Community v1.0.1
EnGarde Secure Community 2
EnGarde Secure Professional v1.1
EnGarde Secure Professional v1.2
EnGarde Secure Professional v1.5
It is recommended that all users apply this update.
SOLUTION
Guardian Digital Secure Network subscribers may automatically
update affected systems by accessing their account from within the
Guardian Digital WebTool.
To modify your GDSN account and contact preferences, please go
to:
https://www.guardiandigital.com/account/
Below are MD5 sums for the updated EnGarde Secure Linux 1.0.1
packages:
SRPMS/openssl-0.9.6-1.0.22.src.rpm
MD5 Sum: 74aae06ff672d77b4efb10fb2326f124
i386/openssl-0.9.6-1.0.22.i386.rpm
MD5 Sum: a21b0cafc32490e4c34e0acd717b7ae9
i386/openssl-devel-0.9.6-1.0.22.i386.rpm
MD5 Sum: 747d1bd9371acc168efde9c5b12c4f8a
i386/openssl-misc-0.9.6-1.0.22.i386.rpm
MD5 Sum: 65b132cada0076faf457ed6ba52417ad
i686/openssl-0.9.6-1.0.22.i686.rpm
MD5 Sum: db4dcaa52748b13e1ecd18cbde3dc8ea
i686/openssl-devel-0.9.6-1.0.22.i686.rpm
MD5 Sum: d21cf14319cecaed414e0266a6832298
i686/openssl-misc-0.9.6-1.0.22.i686.rpm
MD5 Sum: fc3a76d9923dc9712dde0e50756c9ee7
REFERENCES
Guardian Digital’s public key:
http://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/ENGARDE-GPG-KEY
OpenSSL’s Official Web Site:
http://www.openssl.org/
Guardian Digital Advisories:
http://infocenter.guardiandigital.com/advisories/
Security Contact: security@guardiandigital.com
Author: Ryan W. Maple <ryan@guardiandigital.com>
Copyright 2003, Guardian Digital, Inc.