Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-803
Advisory Release Date: 2017-03-06 14:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-03-06 14:00 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
An integer underflow leading to an out of bounds read flaw was found in OpenSSL. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to crash a 32-bit TLS/SSL server or client using OpenSSL if it used the RC4-MD5 cipher suite. (CVE-2017-3731)
A denial of service flaw was found in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections form other clients. (CVE-2016-8610)
Affected Packages:
openssl
Issue Correction:
Run yum update openssl to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
openssl-debuginfo-1.0.1k-15.99.amzn1.i686
openssl-perl-1.0.1k-15.99.amzn1.i686
openssl-1.0.1k-15.99.amzn1.i686
openssl-static-1.0.1k-15.99.amzn1.i686
openssl-devel-1.0.1k-15.99.amzn1.i686
src:
openssl-1.0.1k-15.99.amzn1.src
x86_64:
openssl-perl-1.0.1k-15.99.amzn1.x86_64
openssl-debuginfo-1.0.1k-15.99.amzn1.x86_64
openssl-1.0.1k-15.99.amzn1.x86_64
openssl-devel-1.0.1k-15.99.amzn1.x86_64
openssl-static-1.0.1k-15.99.amzn1.x86_64