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

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-7939
2012-05-16 19:25:53
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Name        : openssl
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.0.0j
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:

This is new minor upstream update fixing moderate security issue CVE-2012-2333.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue May 15 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.0.0j-1
- new upstream release fixing CVE-2012-2333 - improper record
  length checking in DTLS
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #820686 - CVE-2012-2333 openssl: record length handling integer underflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820686
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