DSA-2454-1 openssl -- multipleID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:600782 | Date: (C)2012-04-20 (M)2023-12-07 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues: CVE-2012-0884 Ivan Nestlerode discovered a weakness in the CMS and PKCS #7 implementations that could allow an attacker to decrypt data via a Million Message Attack . CVE-2012-1165 It was discovered that a NULL pointer could be dereferenced when parsing certain S/MIME messages, leading to denial of service. CVE-2012-2110 Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, discovered a vulnerability in the way DER-encoded ASN.1 data is parsed that can result in a heap overflow. Additionally, the fix for CVE-2011-4619 has been updated to address an issue with SGC handshakes.