USN-2863-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2863-1

7th January, 2016

openssl vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

OpenSSL could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Software description

• openssl - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic library and tools

Details

Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent discovered that OpenSSL
incorrectly allowed MD5 to be used for TLS 1.2 connections. If a remote
attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could
be exploited to view sensitive information.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

libssl1.0.0 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.33

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2015-7575