[ GLSA 201404-07 ] OpenSSL: Information Disclosure

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: OpenSSL: Information Disclosure (GLSA 201404-07)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: April 08, 2014
Updated: July 07, 2014
Bug(s): #505278, #507074
ID: 201404-07

Synopsis

Multiple Information Disclosure vulnerabilities in OpenSSL allow
remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via various vectors.


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.


Affected Packages

Package: dev-libs/openssl
Vulnerable: < 1.0.1g
Unaffected: >= 1.0.1g
Unaffected: >= 0.9.8y < 0.9.9
Unaffected: >= 0.9.8z_p1 < 0.9.9
Unaffected: >= 0.9.8z_p2 < 0.9.9
Unaffected: >= 0.9.8z_p3 < 0.9.9
Unaffected: >= 0.9.8z_p4 < 0.9.9
Unaffected: >= 0.9.8z_p5 < 0.9.9
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL:

• OpenSSL incorrectly handles memory in the TLS heartbeat extension,
  leading to information disclosure of 64kb per request, possibly
  including private keys (“Heartbleed bug”, OpenSSL 1.0.1 only,
  CVE-2014-0160).
  
• The Montgomery ladder implementation of OpenSSL improperly handles
  swap operations (CVE-2014-0076).
  

Impact

A remote attacker could exploit these issues to disclose information,
including private keys or other sensitive information, or perform
side-channel attacks to obtain ECDSA nonces.


Workaround

Disabling the tls-heartbeat USE flag (enabled by default) provides a
workaround for the CVE-2014-0160 issue.


Resolution

All OpenSSL users should upgrade to the latest version: