Package : openssl Problem-Type : local Vulnerability : Cryptographic weakness Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-4339 BugTraq ID : 19849 Debian Bug : 386247
Daniel Bleichenbacher discovered a flaw in OpenSSL cryptographic package that could allow an attacker to generate a forged signature that OpenSSL will accept as valid.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.7e-3sarge2
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.8b-3
We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages. Note that services linking against the openssl shared libraries will need to be restarted. Common examples of such services include most Mail Transport Agents, SSH servers, and web servers.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------