EnGarde Secure Linux Security Advisory: openssl vulnerabilities

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 |
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| 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

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

DETAIL

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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

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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

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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

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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

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$Id: 2001.04.26-openssl,v 1.1 2001/04/26 15:18:29 rwm Exp $

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Author: Ryan W. Maple, <ryan@guardiandigital.com>
Copyright 2001, Guardian Digital, Inc.