OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201702-07

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL, the worst of which might allow attackers to access sensitive information.

Affected packages

Background

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.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker is able to crash applications linked against OpenSSL or could obtain sensitive private-key information via an attack against the Diffie-Hellman (DH) ciphersuite.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.2k"
 

References

• CVE-2016-7055
• CVE-2017-3730
• CVE-2017-3731
• CVE-2017-3732

Release date
February 14, 2017

Latest revision
February 14, 2017: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 607318