-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-8014 2012-05-18 10:00:50 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : openssl Product : Fedora 16 Version : 1.0.0j Release : 1.fc16 URL : http://www.openssl.org/ Summary : A 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
This is new minor upstream update fixing moderate security issue CVE-2012-2333. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Tue May 15 2012 Tomas Mraz tmraz@redhat.com 1.0.0j-1 - new upstream release fixing CVE-2012-2333 - improper record length checking in DTLS * Fri Apr 20 2012 Tomas Mraz tmraz@redhat.com 1.0.0i-1 - new upstream release fixing CVE-2012-2110 - memory corruption when loading asn1 from BIO * Fri Mar 23 2012 Tomas Mraz tmraz@redhat.com 1.0.0h-1 - new upstream release fixing CVE-2012-0884 - Bleichenbacher attack against PKCS#7 and CMS (#802725) and CVE-2012-1165 mime_param_cmp NULL dereference (#802489) * Thu Jan 19 2012 Tomas Mraz tmraz@redhat.com 1.0.0g-1 - new upstream release fixing CVE-2012-0050 - DoS regression in DTLS support introduced by the previous release (#782795) * Thu Jan 5 2012 Tomas Mraz tmraz@redhat.com 1.0.0f-1 - new upstream release fixing multiple CVEs * Tue Nov 22 2011 Tomas Mraz tmraz@redhat.com 1.0.0e-4 - move the libraries needed for static linking to Libs.private * Thu Nov 3 2011 Tomas Mraz tmraz@redhat.com 1.0.0e-3 - do not use AVX instructions when osxsave bit not set - add direct known answer tests for SHA2 algorithms * Wed Sep 21 2011 Tomas Mraz tmraz@redhat.com 1.0.0e-2 - fix missing initialization of variable in CHIL engine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #820686 - CVE-2012-2333 openssl: record length handling integer underflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820686 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update openssl' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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