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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-24-1		  November 11, 2004
openssl script vulnerability
CAN-2004-0975
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)

The following packages are affected:

openssl

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 0.9.7d-3ubuntu0.1.  In general, a standard system upgrade is
sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered a vulnerability in the
openssl package. The auxiliary script "der_chop" created temporary
files in an insecure way, which could allow a symlink attack to create
or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking
the program.

  Source archives:

    openssl_0.9.7d-3ubuntu0.1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5:    25295 881c617310b90b1a23170c3af67b1326
    openssl_0.9.7d-3ubuntu0.1.dsc
      Size/MD5:      636 9ac30cc189e6af361873ef8bbae464de
    openssl_0.9.7d.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5:  2799796 533b7f758325d74c1e01e67994e3ae59

  amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)

    libssl-dev_0.9.7d-3ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
      Size/MD5:  2676308 b01867418c6f2a038be827927fdd00aa
    libssl0.9.7_0.9.7d-3ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
      Size/MD5:   696844 18ab0899bd1532f1ad91f41dd65f08d4
    openssl_0.9.7d-3ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
      Size/MD5:   899612 711904323e819ac90f7aad08f1bc3631

  i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)

    libssl-dev_0.9.7d-3ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
      Size/MD5:  2477088 8914e8d13dc84b1756bec1c4b19ac2a5
    libssl0.9.7_0.9.7d-3ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
      Size/MD5:  2152878 ff51693973742936138ad42c90fb065e
    openssl_0.9.7d-3ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
      Size/MD5:   898268 adb9c7c755a144f8c5a8bc1bdc157b44

  powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)

    libssl-dev_0.9.7d-3ubuntu0.1_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5:  2759022 1d316d0e83b4b4686d91a7e92512c6ca
    libssl0.9.7_0.9.7d-3ubuntu0.1_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5:   700616 aef52c3c1fdeaa12773691b3bac4f57d
    openssl_0.9.7d-3ubuntu0.1_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5:   904250 b2b9f62f80982a8ea6d20ce5fc06884d





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