Engarde Secure Linux: openssl, openssl-misc

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 1, 2003

Guardian Digital Security Advisory September 30, 2003
http://www.guardiandigital.com ESA-20030930-027
Packages: openssl, openssl-misc
Summary: ASN.1 parsing vulnerabilities.

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


An SSL/TLS testing suite developed by the NISCC (UK National
Infrastructure Security Co-Ordination Centre) uncovered ASN.1
parsing vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. Exploitation of these
vulnerabilities may result in a denial of service.

More information on these vulnerabilities may be found at the
following URLs:

http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/tls.htm

http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htm

http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20030930.txt

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org/) has assigned the names
CAN-2003-0543 and CAN-2003-0544 to these issues.

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 as soon as
possible.

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-0.9.6-1.0.20.src.rpm
MD5 Sum: 5d1934b9bcd268d94f8ac8b99d1d5706

i386/openssl-0.9.6-1.0.20.i386.rpm
MD5 Sum: 4bb12e405b0263e6c7be9b3c78b3790a

i386/openssl-misc-0.9.6-1.0.20.i386.rpm
MD5 Sum: 56dbd3b4ad1003700b24812b9b2862c4

i686/openssl-0.9.6-1.0.20.i686.rpm
MD5 Sum: 4facceca8713e17657595f3f4eb6b406

i686/openssl-misc-0.9.6-1.0.20.i686.rpm
MD5 Sum: bd2a0d8dcd4e23127d3d388bf8c18b35

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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.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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