[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: openssl-1.0.0i-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-6343
2012-04-21 20:58:01
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Name        : openssl
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.0.0i
Release     : 1.fc17
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.

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Update Information:

Upstream security update fixing CVE-2012-2110 - memory corruption in when reading ASN.1 structures through BIO interface.

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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #814185 - CVE-2012-2110 openssl: asn1_d2i_read_bio integer errors leading to buffer overflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814185
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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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