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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2020-83291355d7
2021-01-01 00:35:20.838602
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Name : openssl11
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 1.1.1g
Release : 2.el7
URL :
http://www.openssl.org/
Summary : Utilities from the general purpose cryptography library with TLS
implementation
Description :
The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between
machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared
libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and
protocols.
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Update Information:
- backport from 1.1.1g-12: Fix CVE-2020-1971 ediparty null pointer dereference
- backport from 1.1.1g-11.1: Implemented new FIPS requirements in regards to KDF
and DH selftests - backport from 1.1.1g-11.1: Disallow certificates with
explicit EC parameters
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Dec 16 2020 Robert Scheck <robert(a)fedoraproject.org> 1.1.1g-2
- backport from 1.1.1g-12: Fix CVE-2020-1971 ediparty null pointer dereference
- backport from 1.1.1g-11.1: Implemented new FIPS requirements in regards to KDF and DH
selftests
- backport from 1.1.1g-11.1: Disallow certificates with explicit EC parameters
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1903409 - CVE-2020-1971 openssl: EDIPARTYNAME NULL pointer de-reference
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1903409
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update openssl11' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7\
/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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