OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a general purpose cryptography library.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL. Please review the CVE identifiers and the International Association for Cryptologic Research’s (IACR) paper, “Make Sure DSA Signing Exponentiations Really are Constant-Time” for further details.

Impact

Remote attackers could cause a Denial of Service condition or have other unspecified impacts. Additionally, a time based side-channel attack may allow a local attacker to recover a private DSA key.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All OpenSSL users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.2j"