openssl security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2010:0977

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

A ciphersuite downgrade flaw was found in the OpenSSL SSL/TLS server code.
A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to change the ciphersuite
associated with a cached session stored on the server, if the server
enabled the SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_REUSE_CIPHER_CHANGE_BUG option, possibly
forcing the client to use a weaker ciphersuite after resuming the session.
(CVE-2010-4180, CVE-2008-7270)

Note: With this update, setting the SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_REUSE_CIPHER_CHANGE_BUG
option has no effect and this bug workaround can no longer be enabled.

It was discovered that OpenSSL did not always check the return value of the
bn_wexpand() function. An attacker able to trigger a memory allocation
failure in that function could possibly crash an application using the
OpenSSL library and its UBSEC hardware engine support. (CVE-2009-3245)

All OpenSSL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to resolve these issues. For the update to take effect,
all services linked to the OpenSSL library must be restarted, or the system
rebooted.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-January/079397.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-January/079398.html

Affected packages:
openssl
openssl-devel
openssl-perl

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0977