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USN-1898-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

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USN-1898-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
09/15/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/08/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Qt, and other products, can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers by observing length differences during a series of guesses in which a string in an HTTP request potentially matches an unknown string in an HTTP header, aka a "CRIME" attack.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libssl0-9-8
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libssl1-0-0

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