glsa-202012-13.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202012-13">
  <title>OpenSSL: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in OpenSSL might allow remote attackers to cause a
    Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">openssl</product>
  <announced>2020-12-23</announced>
  <revised count="1">2020-12-23</revised>
  <bug>759079</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/openssl" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.1i</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.1i</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer
      (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1/v1.1/v1.2/v1.3) as well
      as a general purpose cryptography library.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A null pointer dereference flaw was found in OpenSSL.</p>
  </description>
  <impact type="low">
    <p>A remote attacker, able to control the arguments of the GENERAL_NAME_cmp
      function in an application linked against OpenSSL, could possibly cause a
      Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All OpenSSL users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/openssl-1.1.1i"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1971">CVE-2020-1971</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-12-22T22:47:12Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-12-23T19:52:34Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>