How to patch the Vulnerability [CVE-2014-0224] in OpenSSL?

Solution 1:

1. Make sure you have a currently supported release: 10.04-server, 12.04, 14.04 or 13.10.

   ~$ lsb_release -a
   No LSB modules are available.
   Distributor ID: Ubuntu
   Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
   Release:    12.04
   Codename:   precise
   

2. Make sure you install the latest updates. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

3. Verify. apt-cache policy openssl should show as installed version 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.14.

   apt-cache policy openssl
   openssl:
     Installed: 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.14
     Candidate: 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.14
     Version table:
    *** 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.14 0
           500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
           500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main i386 Packages
           500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages
           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
   

4. Restart any services or the system just to be sure.

Solution 2:

The answer given does not answer the question, and as far as the latest package for x86_64 14.04 the latest openssl package info is (if others have dif please let me know):

openssl:
  Installed: 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.3
  Candidate: 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.3
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.3 0
        500 mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0.1f-1ubuntu2 0
        500 mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

I have been messing around with installing/upgrading that to version 1.0.1h from HERE with no luck yet, when I make some headway I will check back in.

*****UPDATE: So I found the solution on another thread that just needed to be updated (source post listed below):**

Below the single command line to compiling and install the last openssl version.

curl https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1h.tar.gz | tar xz && cd openssl-1.0.1h && sudo ./config && sudo make && sudo make install

Replace old openssl binary file by the new one via a symlink. Go to /usr/bin in terminal and run command below

sudo ln -sf /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl `which openssl`

Reboot and you are good to go. You may want/need to create new certificates. Here is the original thread/post I updated. SOURCE

My output after running commands and rebooting:

OpenSSL 1.0.1h 5 Jun 2014
built on: Sat Jun 14 22:43:13 EDT 2014
platform: linux-x86_64
options:  bn(64,64) rc4(16x,int) des(idx,cisc,16,int) idea(int) blowfish(idx) 
compiler: gcc -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -Wa,--noexecstack -m64 -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -O3 -Wall -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DBSAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM
OPENSSLDIR: "/usr/lib/ssl"