Debian Security Advisory
DSA-875-1 openssl094 -- cryptographic weakness
- Date Reported:
- 27 Oct 2005
- Affected Packages:
- openssl094
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2969.
- More information:
-
Yutaka Oiwa discovered a vulnerability in the Open Secure Socket Layer (OpenSSL) library that can allow an attacker to perform active protocol-version rollback attacks that could lead to the use of the weaker SSL 2.0 protocol even though both ends support SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.0.
The following matrix explains which version in which distribution has this problem corrected.
oldstable (woody) stable (sarge) unstable (sid) openssl 0.9.6c-2.woody.8 0.9.7e-3sarge1 0.9.8-3 openssl094 0.9.4-6.woody.4 n/a n/a openssl095 0.9.5a-6.woody.6 n/a n/a openssl096 n/a 0.9.6m-1sarge1 n/a openssl097 n/a n/a 0.9.7g-5 We recommend that you upgrade your libssl packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openssl094/openssl094_0.9.4-6.woody.4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openssl094/openssl094_0.9.4-6.woody.4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openssl094/openssl094_0.9.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openssl094/openssl094_0.9.4-6.woody.4.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openssl094/libssl09_0.9.4-6.woody.4_alpha.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openssl094/libssl09_0.9.4-6.woody.4_i386.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openssl094/libssl09_0.9.4-6.woody.4_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.