[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#483379: openssl: CVE-2008-1672, CVE-2008-0891 multiple security issues

Christoph Martin martin at uni-mainz.de
Wed May 28 17:03:43 UTC 2008



Nico Golde schrieb:
> Hi Christoph,
> * Christoph Martin <martin at uni-mainz.de> [2008-05-28 17:13]:
>> Nico Golde schrieb:
>>> Package: openssl
>>> Version: 0.9.8f-1
>>> Severity: grave
>>> Tags: security
> [...] 
>>> | Testing using the Codenomicon TLS test suite discovered a flaw in the
>>> | handling of server name extension data in OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL
>>> | 0.9.8g.  If OpenSSL has been compiled using the non-default TLS server
>>> | name extensions, a remote attacker could send a carefully crafted
>>> | packet to a server application using OpenSSL and cause a crash.
>> This one does not affect the current Debian version, since it is not
>> compiled with the tlsext option.
> 
> Did you miss:
> CONFARGS  = --prefix=/usr --openssldir=/usr/lib/ssl no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5 zlib  enable-tlsext 
>                                                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sorry. You are right. I stand corrected.


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