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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3116-1 polarssl -- security update

Date Reported:

30 Dec 2014

Affected Packages:

polarssl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-8628.

More information:

It was discovered that a memory leak in parsing X.509 certificates may result in denial of service.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.9-1~deb7u4.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.9-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.9-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your polarssl packages.