[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: openssl-1.0.1e-36.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-23788
2013-12-22 04:25:11
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Name        : openssl
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.0.1e
Release     : 36.fc20
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:

This update fixes important security issue (DoS) CVE-2013-6449.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Dec 20 2013 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.0.1e-36
- fix CVE-2013-6449 - crash when version in SSL structure is incorrect
- more FIPS validation requirement changes
- do not apply the no-md5-verify patch in released Fedora branches
* Wed Dec 18 2013 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.0.1e-35
- drop weak ciphers from the default TLS ciphersuite list
- add back some symbols that were dropped with update to 1.0.1 branch
- more FIPS validation requirement changes
* Tue Nov 19 2013 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.0.1e-34
- fix locking and reseeding problems with FIPS drbg
* Fri Nov 15 2013 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.0.1e-33
- additional changes required for FIPS validation
* Wed Nov 13 2013 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.0.1e-32
- disable verification of certificate, CRL, and OCSP signatures
  using MD5 if OPENSSL_ENABLE_MD5_VERIFY environment variable
  is not set
* Fri Nov  8 2013 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.0.1e-31
- add back support for secp521r1 EC curve
- add aarch64 to Configure (#969692)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1045363 - CVE-2013-6449 openssl: crash when using TLS 1.2
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045363
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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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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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