openssl security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0813

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and
Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength
general purpose cryptography library.

A flaw was found in the SSL_get_shared_ciphers() utility function. An
attacker could send a list of ciphers to an application that used this
function and overrun a buffer with a single byte (CVE-2007-5135). Few
applications make use of this vulnerable function and generally it is used
only when applications are compiled for debugging.

A number of possible side-channel attacks were discovered affecting
OpenSSL. A local attacker could possibly obtain RSA private keys being
used on a system. In practice these attacks would be difficult to perform
outside of a lab environment. This update contains backported patches
designed to mitigate these issues. (CVE-2007-3108).

Users of OpenSSL should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to resolve these issues.

Note: After installing this update, users are advised to either restart all
services that use OpenSSL or restart their system.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-October/076487.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-October/076488.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-October/076489.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-October/076491.html

Affected packages:
openssl
openssl-devel
openssl-perl

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0813