Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-3436 openssl - security update

   
Affected software Debian
 
Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent at INRIA discovered a flaw inthe TLS 1.2 protocol which could allow the MD5 hash function to be usedfor signing ServerKeyExchange and Client Authentication packets during aTLS handshake. A man-in-the-middle attacker could exploit this flaw toconduct collision attacks to impersonate a TLS server or anauthenticated TLS client.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3436