metadata/glsa/glsa-200710-30.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200710-30">
  <title>OpenSSL: Remote execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    OpenSSL contains a vulnerability allowing execution of arbitrary code or a
    Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">openssl</product>
  <announced>October 27, 2007</announced>
  <revised>October 30, 2007: 03</revised>
  <bug>195634</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/openssl" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.9.8f</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.8f</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer
    (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a general
    purpose cryptography library.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Andy Polyakov reported a vulnerability in the OpenSSL toolkit, that is
    caused due to an unspecified off-by-one error within the DTLS
    implementation.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code or
    cause a Denial of Service. Only clients and servers explicitly using
    DTLS are affected, systems using SSL and TLS are not.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All OpenSSL users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8f&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4995">CVE-2007-4995</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:07:11 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:07:40 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:06:07 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
</glsa>