Advisories » MGASA-2014-0315

Updated polarssl packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Aug 2014
Modification date: 05 Aug 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-4911

Description

A flaw was discovered in PolarSSL, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library,
which can be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to mount a denial
of service against PolarSSL servers that offer GCM ciphersuites. Potentially
clients are affected too if a malicious server decides to execute the denial
of service attack against its clients (CVE-2014-4911).

The pdns package has been rebuilt against the updated polarssl library.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13764
• https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/polarssl-security-advisory-2014-02
• https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/releases/polarssl-1.3.8-released
• https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2981
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4911

SRPMS

4/core

• polarssl-1.3.8-1.mga4
• pdns-3.3.1-2.2.mga4

3/core

• polarssl-1.3.8-1.mga3
• pdns-3.3.1-1.3.mga3