SB2025022105 - Ubuntu update for openssl

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Covert Timing Channel (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-13176)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to recover a private key.

The vulnerability exists due to a timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computations. A remote attacker can recover the private key and decrypt data.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that the attacker's process must either be located in the same physical computer or must have a very fast network connection with low latency.

2) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9143)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when using the low-level GF(2^m) elliptic curve APIs with untrusted explicit values for the field polynomial. A remote attacker can send specially crafted input to the server, trigger an out-of-bounds write and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Note, the vulnerability can be exploited against the application in rare cases only that involve "exotic" curve encoding.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7278-1