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Slackware-14.1 ChangeLog (2014-04-08)
Tue Apr 8 14:19:51 UTC 2014
Packages
Upgraded
- patches/packages/openssl-1.0.1g-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
This update fixes two security issues:
A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension
can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or server.
Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
Adam Langley agl@chromium.org and Bodo Moeller bmoeller@acm.org for
preparing the fix.
Fix for the attack described in the paper “Recovering OpenSSL
ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack”
by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0160
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0076
(* Security fix *)