[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: openssl-1.0.0g-1.fc16
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Sun Jan 22 05:27:15 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-0708
2012-01-19 21:20:51
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Name : openssl
Product : Fedora 16
Version : 1.0.0g
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.
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Update Information:
A new upstream package fixing a security vulnerability (DoS) regression in DTLS introduced by the previous update.
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Jan 19 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at 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 at redhat.com> 1.0.0f-1
- new upstream release fixing multiple CVEs
* Tue Nov 22 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.0.0e-4
- move the libraries needed for static linking to Libs.private
* Thu Nov 3 2011 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at 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 at redhat.com> 1.0.0e-2
- fix missing initialization of variable in CHIL engine
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #782795 - CVE-2012-0050 openssl: remote DTLS server DoS introduced in the CVE-2011-4108 fix
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782795
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update openssl' at the command line.
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