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Certain checks on untrusted certificates can be bypassed.
| Package | dev-libs/openssl on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 1.0.1p |
| Unaffected versions | >= 1.0.1p revision >= 0.9.8z_p6 revision >= 0.9.8z_p7 revision >= 0.9.8z_p8 revision >= 0.9.8z_p9 revision >= 0.9.8z_p10 revision >= 0.9.8z_p11 revision >= 0.9.8z_p12 revision >= 0.9.8z_p13 revision >= 0.9.8z_p14 revision >= 0.9.8z_p15 |
OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a general purpose cryptography library.
During certificate verification, OpenSSL attempts to find an alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain fails.
A remote attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf certificate to act as a CA and “issue” an invalid certificate.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All OpenSSL users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.1p"
Release date
July 10, 2015
Latest revision
February 26, 2016: 3
Severity
normal
Exploitable
remote
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