USN-6663-1: OpenSSL update
Severity
low
Vendor
VMware Tanzu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
- Cflinuxfs3
Description
As a security improvement, this update prevents OpenSSL from returning an error when detecting wrong padding in PKCS#1 v1.5 RSA, to prevent its use in possible Bleichenbacher timing attacks. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6663-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libssl1.1 - 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.23+esm5 libssl-dev - 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.23+esm5 openssl - 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.23+esm5 libssl-doc - 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.23+esm5 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro.
Fixed VMware Products and Versions
- VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
- 4.4.32 or greater
- 5.0.25 or greater
- 5.1.2 or greater
- Cf Deployment
- 30.0.0 or greater
References
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6663-1
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6663-1
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=usn-6663-1
History
2024-02-27: Initial vulnerability report published.