FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl                                    Security Advisory 
                                                          The FreeBSD Project 
 
Topic:          OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities 
 
Category:       contrib 
Module:         openssl 
Announced:      2014-04-08 
Affects:        All supported versions of FreeBSD. 
Corrected:      2014-04-08 18:27:39 UTC (stable/10, 10.0-STABLE) 
                2014-04-08 18:27:46 UTC (releng/10.0, 10.0-RELEASE-p1) 
                2014-04-08 23:16:19 UTC (stable/9, 9.2-STABLE) 
                2014-04-08 23:16:05 UTC (releng/9.2, 9.2-RELEASE-p4) 
                2014-04-08 23:16:05 UTC (releng/9.1, 9.1-RELEASE-p11) 
                2014-04-08 23:16:19 UTC (stable/8, 8.4-STABLE) 
                2014-04-08 23:16:05 UTC (releng/8.4, 8.4-RELEASE-p8) 
                2014-04-08 23:16:05 UTC (releng/8.3, 8.3-RELEASE-p15) 
CVE Name:       CVE-2014-0076, CVE-2014-0160 
 
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including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the 
following sections, please visit <URL:http://security.FreeBSD.org/>. 
 
0.   Revision History 
 
v1.0  2014-04-08 Initial release. 
v1.1  2014-04-08 Added patch applying step in Solutions section. 
 
I.   Background 
 
FreeBSD includes software from the OpenSSL Project.  The OpenSSL Project is 
a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured 
Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) 
and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength 
general purpose cryptography library. 
 
The Heartbeat Extension provides a new protocol for TLS/DTLS allowing the 
usage of keep-alive functionality without performing a renegotiation and a 
basis for path MTU (PMTU) discovery for DTLS. 
 
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) is a variant of the 
Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) which uses Elliptic Curve Cryptography. 
OpenSSL uses the Montgomery Ladder Approach to compute scalar multiplication 
in a fixed amount of time, which does not leak any information through timing 
or power. 
 
II.  Problem Description 
 
The code used to handle the Heartbeat Extension does not do sufficient boundary 
checks on record length, which allows reading beyond the actual payload. 
[CVE-2014-0160].  Affects FreeBSD 10.0 only. 
 
A flaw in the implementation of Montgomery Ladder Approach would create a 
side-channel that leaks sensitive timing information. [CVE-2014-0076] 
 
III. Impact 
 
An attacker who can send a specifically crafted packet to TLS server or client 
with an established connection can reveal up to 64k of memory of the remote 
system.  Such memory might contain sensitive information, including key 
material, protected content, etc. which could be directly useful, or might 
be leveraged to obtain elevated privileges.  [CVE-2014-0160] 
 
A local attacker might be able to snoop a signing process and might recover 
the signing key from it.  [CVE-2014-0076] 
 
IV.  Workaround 
 
No workaround is available, but systems that do not use OpenSSL to implement 
the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) 
protocols implementation and do not use the ECDSA implementation from OpenSSL 
are not vulnerable. 
 
V.   Solution 
 
Perform one of the following: 
 
1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or 
release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date. 
 
2) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch: 
 
The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable 
FreeBSD release branches. 
 
a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the 
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. 
 
[FreeBSD 8.x and FreeBSD 9.x] 
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-14:06/openssl.patch 
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-14:06/openssl.patch.asc 
# gpg --verify openssl.patch.asc 
 
[FreeBSD 10.0] 
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-14:06/openssl-10.patch 
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-14:06/openssl-10.patch.asc 
# gpg --verify openssl-10.patch.asc 
 
b) Execute the following commands as root: 
 
# cd /usr/src 
# patch < /path/to/patch 
 
Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as 
described in <URL:http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/makeworld.html>. 
 
Restart all deamons using the library, or reboot the system. 
 
3) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch: 
 
Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64 
platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility: 
 
# freebsd-update fetch 
# freebsd-update install 
 
IMPORTANT: the update procedure above does not update OpenSSL from the 
Ports Collection or from a package, known as security/openssl, which 
has to be updated separately via ports or package.  Users who have 
installed security/openssl should update to at least version 1.0.1_10. 
 
VI.  Correction details 
 
The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each 
affected branch. 
 
Branch/path                                                      Revision 
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
stable/8/                                                         r264285 
releng/8.3/                                                       r264284 
releng/8.4/                                                       r264284 
stable/9/                                                         r264285 
releng/9.1/                                                       r264284 
releng/9.2/                                                       r264284 
stable/10/                                                        r264266 
releng/10.0/                                                      r264267 
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 
To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the 
following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a 
machine with Subversion installed: 
 
# svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base 
 
Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: 
 
<URL:http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=NNNNNN> 
 
VII. References 
 
<URL:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0076> 
<URL:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0160> 
 
<URL:http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt> 
<URL:http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140.pdf> 
 
The latest revision of this advisory is available at 
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