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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1157-1 openssl -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

09 Nov 2017

Affected Packages:

openssl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-3735.

More information:

A security vulnerability was discovered in OpenSSL, the Secure Sockets Layer toolkit.

• CVE-2017-3735

  It was discovered that OpenSSL is prone to a one-byte buffer overread while parsing a malformed IPAddressFamily extension in an X.509 certificate.

  Details can be found in the upstream advisory: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20170828.txt

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.1t-1+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.

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