OpenSSL fixes another severe vulnerability
Credit:
http://www.openssl.org/
The OpenSSL project has reported fixes for several vulnerabilities, at least one of them serious.
The most significant vulnerability is SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability (CVE-2014-0224). Unlike Heartbleed, which had been introduced into the program not long before, affects all versions of OpenSSL, including those that were patched to fix Heartbleed.
All client versions of OpenSSL are vulnerable. OpenSSL servers are only known to be vulnerable in versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-beta1. The bug was discovered by KIKUCHI Masashi (Lepidum Co. Ltd.) and reported to OpenSSL on May 1 via JPCERT/CC. Kikuchi has published his own explanation of the bug.
OpenSSL provides this advice:
- OpenSSL 0.9.8 DTLS users should upgrade to 0.9.8za
- OpenSSL 1.0.0 DTLS users should upgrade to 1.0.0m
- OpenSSL 1.0.1 DTLS users should upgrade to 1.0.1h
