Medium: openssl

Issue Overview:

During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DH(E) based ciphersuite a malicious server can send a very large prime value to the client. This will cause the client to spend an unreasonably long period of time generating a key for this prime resulting in a hang until the client has finished. This could be exploited in a Denial Of Service attack.(CVE-2018-0732 )

Affected Packages:

openssl

Issue Correction:
Run yum update openssl to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    openssl-perl-1.0.2k-13.111.amzn1.i686  
    openssl-devel-1.0.2k-13.111.amzn1.i686  
    openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-13.111.amzn1.i686  
    openssl-1.0.2k-13.111.amzn1.i686  
    openssl-static-1.0.2k-13.111.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    openssl-1.0.2k-13.111.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    openssl-perl-1.0.2k-13.111.amzn1.x86_64  
    openssl-1.0.2k-13.111.amzn1.x86_64  
    openssl-devel-1.0.2k-13.111.amzn1.x86_64  
    openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-13.111.amzn1.x86_64  
    openssl-static-1.0.2k-13.111.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-0732

Mitre: CVE-2018-0732