1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200902-02 / openssl |
| Release Date | February 12, 2009 |
| Latest Revision | February 12, 2009: 01 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| dev-libs/openssl | < 0.9.8j | >= 0.9.8j | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #251346
An error in the OpenSSL certificate chain validation might allow for spoofing attacks.
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.
The Google Security Team reported that several functions incorrectly check the result after calling the EVP_VerifyFinal() function, allowing a malformed signature to be treated as a good signature rather than as an error. This issue affects the signature checks on DSA and ECDSA keys used with SSL/TLS.
A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability and spoof arbitrary names to conduct Man-In-The-Middle attacks and intercept sensitive information.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All OpenSSL users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8j" |