USN-3628-1: OpenSSL vulnerability
19 April 2018
OpenSSL could allow access to sensitve information.
Releases
Packages
- openssl - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic library and tools
Details
Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia and Luis Manuel Alvarez Tapia
discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled RSA key generation. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to perform a cache-timing attack and recover private RSA keys.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 17.10
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-3628-2: openssl, libssl1.0.0
- USN-3692-1: libcrypto1.0.0-udeb, openssl, libcrypto1.1-udeb, libssl-dev, libssl1.1-udeb, openssl1.0, libssl1.0-dev, libssl-doc, libssl1.0.0, libssl1.1, libssl1.0.0-udeb
- USN-3692-2: openssl, libssl1.0.0