____________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: openssl Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2002:027 Date: Tuesday, Jul 30th 2002 19:00 MEST Affected products: 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 SuSE Linux Database Server, SuSE eMail Server 3.1, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux Firewall on CD, SuSE Linux Connectivity Server SuSE Linux Office Server Vulnerability Type: remote command execution Severity (1-10): 8 SuSE default package: yes Cross References: CAN-2002-0656, CAN-2002-0657, CAN-2002-0655, CERT Advisory CA-2002-23 Content of this advisory: 1) security vulnerability resolved: openssl problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information 2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds 3) standard appendix (further information) ____________________________________________________________________________ 1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information The openssl package provides encryption functions and is used by many applications on SuSE products. Several buffer overflows have been discovered in the OpenSSL library affecting the SSL implementation, as well as a signedness issue in the ASN.1 decoding routines. In the SSL library, various blobs of data passed from the client to the server or vice versa were being copied to local buffers without checking their size. At least one overflow in the SSLv2 server code can be exploited by an attacker to gain access to the account under which the SSL enabled service is running. The other overflows happen in the SSL client code. The impact of this bug depends on the service using SSL. When attacking the Apache HTTP server with mod_ssl enabled, the perpetrator could gain access to the account "wwwrun". Attacking other services, such as the OpenLDAP slapd server, could even give the attacker access to the system's root account. Temporary workarounds for affected services include to disable the ssl functionality where this is possible. For ssl-enabled webservers, it is possible to temporarily disable SSLv2: Edit /etc/httpd/httpd.conf and add the following line to the mod_ssl configuration group: SSLProtocols all -SSLv2 This should be considered a temporary workaround only. Since the SSL client implementation is affected as well, and due to the potential impact of the ASN.1 signedness issues, we recommend that users who do not run SSL enabled services upgrade their openssl package as well. By consequence, we recommend all users to update their openssl package. Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement. Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply the update. Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages are being offered to install from the maintenance web. SPECIAL INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS: ============================== After performing the package update, all services using the openssl libraries must be restarted for the update to become effective. This can be done by rebooting the server or by individually restarting the services in question manually. To find out which services use the openssl libraries, use the command fuser -v /usr/lib/libssl.so* /usr/lib/libcrypto.so* The ASN1 parser vulnerability was discovered by Adi Stav and James Yonan independently. We would like to express our gratitude to the openssl team for their work on the package and the fix for the vulnerability. Intel i386 Platform: SuSE-8.0: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/sec1/openssl-0.9.6c-78.i386.rpm d68e8d7b95c8e08a26e8c43f8402dd9e ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/d3/openssl-devel-0.9.6c-78.i386.rpm 585843303f70fd248d7246255df67b04 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/doc4/openssl-doc-0.9.6c-78.i386.rpm 26a7ccff8ed167f6b75e8fe3fa8dd9f6 source rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/zq1/openssl-0.9.6c-78.src.rpm f79da5c72786b565d3c974bc3c99fd96 SuSE-7.3: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/sec1/openssl-0.9.6b-147.i386.rpm d561da0a81b4c2672489af60c5dd8370 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/d2/openssl-devel-0.9.6b-147.i386.rpm 9a1bab09eeb257ac3431b3f59c7b6505 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/doc3/openssl-doc-0.9.6b-147.i386.rpm f7c835278bec7df2efd630ba3c3c813f source rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/zq1/openssl-0.9.6b-147.src.rpm 2dc2b9e91159b9f31becb9e60b089216 SuSE-7.2: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/sec1/openssl-0.9.6a-63.i386.rpm 1e4e8c964ad7a199c79e01aab3df2f6f ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/d2/openssl-devel-0.9.6a-63.i386.rpm e8e751d8c712956a57285fb85a14c390 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/doc3/openssl-doc-0.9.6a-63.i386.rpm 70ac1f005f8480a25b7ee5ef94e61582 source rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/zq1/openssl-0.9.6a-63.src.rpm da7631d06555e889fd21b36b521488c1 SuSE-7.1: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/sec1/openssl-0.9.6a-63.i386.rpm 4d77c7121cc5e917ef1e2d3a6cfa3e02 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/d2/openssl-devel-0.9.6a-63.i386.rpm ab1e29c72446bf452ec35ba033aa0411 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/doc3/openssl-doc-0.9.6a-63.i386.rpm 0c1715237824236ce88011e9d63b16c0 source rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/zq1/openssl-0.9.6a-63.src.rpm 4300e98769f3e4743524b84c5d917148 SuSE-7.0: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/sec1/openssl-0.9.5a-59.i386.rpm 609999f72998db65d514619271058c97 source rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/zq1/openssl-0.9.5a-59.src.rpm 313bc5e55757dc36414d3962306fa1b8 Sparc Platform: The packages for the Sparc platform are being built by the time of the writing of this announcement and will be published without any delay. AXP Alpha Platform: The packages for the Alpha platform are being built by the time of the writing of this announcement and will be published without any delay. PPC Power PC Platform: SuSE-7.3: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/sec1/openssl-0.9.6b-136.ppc.rpm 13c3473cea153733d903c7bc787f2570 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/d2/openssl-devel-0.9.6b-136.ppc.rpm 9d7dc120b55d29df6cb94c0930dfda1c ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/doc3/openssl-doc-0.9.6b-136.ppc.rpm 29f3db701df227c5f06de28b681c49dc source rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/zq1/openssl-0.9.6b-136.src.rpm deedc21663128548d830bf9c24c70add SuSE-7.1: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/sec1/openssl-0.9.6a-23.ppc.rpm c7342fc2aced5e38c4cea73bc9012715 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/d2/openssl-devel-0.9.6a-23.ppc.rpm ea0bc83b56fc373734aed4314a52babb ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/doc3/openssl-doc-0.9.6a-23.ppc.rpm 33db969774904ce36a4d79a69af4c85a source rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/zq1/openssl-0.9.6a-23.src.rpm f0c1fc2a70e453731d19378f8f1ba351 SuSE-7.0: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/sec1/openssl-0.9.5a-8.ppc.rpm 0b839d3c13e0250eeb16728ba2ed2354 source rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/zq1/openssl-0.9.5a-8.src.rpm e2837b523654fc7ac73c1b94e2627c60 ____________________________________________________________________________ 2) Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds: - chfn/util-linux Linux distributors have published security announcements about password locking race conditions that lead to a local root vulnerability. SuSE products are not affected by this weakness because we use the user/group management utilities from the shadow package. These utilities are not affected. - mod_ssl An off-by-one buffer overflow in the mod_ssl apache module is subject to an upcoming SuSE Security announcement, following this announcement. The upcoming announcement also treats a temporary file handling problem that has been discovered by Markus Meissner and Sebastian Krahmer, SuSE Security. - libpng libpng is a library that provides functions for applications to handle PNG image files (Portable Network Graphics). An overflow vulnerability has been found in the libpng library that may make it possible for an attacker to run arbitrary code or to crash an application that uses the libpng library if the application in question opens a png image file. We are in the process of fixing this vulnerability. - wwwoffle (World Wide Web Offline Explorer) wwwoffle fails to handle negative Content-Length values correctly. It is believed that an attacker can exploit this bug to gain remote access to the system running wwwoffle. We are working on update packages against this problem. - mod_php4-4.2* Security vulnerabilities have been found in php versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1. SuSE systems are not affected because these systems use older versions of the php package. - The SuSE Linux 6.4 distribution has been announced to be discontinued in June. We have now moved the update directories for all architectures to the discontinued directory on our ftp server to indicate that no more updates will be made for this distribution. ____________________________________________________________________________ 3) standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information - Package authenticity verification: SuSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing the package. There are two verification methods that can be used independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded file or rpm package: 1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement. 2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package. 1) execute the command md5sum <name-of-the-file.rpm> after you downloaded the file from a SuSE ftp server or its mirrors. Then, compare the resulting md5sum with the one that is listed in the announcement. Since the announcement containing the checksums is cryptographically signed (usually using the key security@suse.de), the checksums show proof of the authenticity of the package. We disrecommend to subscribe to security lists which cause the email message containing the announcement to be modified so that the signature does not match after transport through the mailing list software. Downsides: You must be able to verify the authenticity of the announcement in the first place. If RPM packages are being rebuilt and a new version of a package is published on the ftp server, all md5 sums for the files are useless. 2) rpm package signatures provide an easy way to verify the authenticity of an rpm package. Use the command rpm -v --checksig <file.rpm> to verify the signature of the package, where <file.rpm> is the filename of the rpm package that you have downloaded. Of course, package authenticity verification can only target an un-installed rpm package file. Prerequisites: a) gpg is installed b) The package is signed using a certain key. The public part of this key must be installed by the gpg program in the directory ~/.gnupg/ under the user's home directory who performs the signature verification (usually root). You can import the key that is used by SuSE in rpm packages for SuSE Linux by saving this announcement to a file ("announcement.txt") and running the command (do "su -" to be root): gpg --batch; gpg < announcement.txt | gpg --import SuSE Linux distributions version 7.1 and thereafter install the key "build@suse.de" upon installation or upgrade, provided that the package gpg is installed. The file containing the public key is placed at the top-level directory of the first CD (pubring.gpg) and at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/pubring.gpg-build.suse.de . - SuSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may subscribe: suse-security@suse.com - general/linux/SuSE security discussion. All SuSE security announcements are sent to this list. 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