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openssl, openssl097a, openssl098e security update

Description

**CentOS Errata and Security Advisory** CESA-2012:0518 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. Multiple numeric conversion errors, leading to a buffer overflow, were found in the way OpenSSL parsed ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) data from BIO (OpenSSL's I/O abstraction) inputs. Specially-crafted DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) encoded data read from a file or other BIO input could cause an application using the OpenSSL library to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2110) All OpenSSL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. 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/2012-April/080754.html https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2012-April/080758.html **Affected packages:** openssl openssl-devel openssl-perl openssl-static openssl097a openssl098e **Upstream details at:** https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0518


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
CentOS 5 openssl097a 0.9.7a-11.el5_8.2
CentOS 5 openssl 0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3
CentOS 5 openssl 0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3
CentOS 5 openssl-devel 0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3
CentOS 5 openssl-perl 0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3
CentOS 5 openssl097a 0.9.7a-11.el5_8.2
CentOS 5 openssl097a 0.9.7a-11.el5_8.2
CentOS 5 openssl 0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3
CentOS 5 openssl 0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3
CentOS 5 openssl-devel 0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3
CentOS 5 openssl-devel 0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3
CentOS 5 openssl-perl 0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3
CentOS 5 openssl097a 0.9.7a-11.el5_8.2
CentOS 5 openssl 0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3
CentOS 6 openssl098e 0.9.8e-17.el6.centos.2
CentOS 6 openssl 1.0.0-20.el6_2.4
CentOS 6 openssl-devel 1.0.0-20.el6_2.4
CentOS 6 openssl-perl 1.0.0-20.el6_2.4
CentOS 6 openssl-static 1.0.0-20.el6_2.4
CentOS 6 openssl098e 0.9.8e-17.el6.centos.2
CentOS 6 openssl098e 0.9.8e-17.el6.centos.2
CentOS 6 openssl 1.0.0-20.el6_2.4
CentOS 6 openssl 1.0.0-20.el6_2.4
CentOS 6 openssl-devel 1.0.0-20.el6_2.4
CentOS 6 openssl-devel 1.0.0-20.el6_2.4
CentOS 6 openssl-perl 1.0.0-20.el6_2.4
CentOS 6 openssl-static 1.0.0-20.el6_2.4
CentOS 6 openssl098e 0.9.8e-17.el6.centos.2
CentOS 6 openssl 1.0.0-20.el6_2.4

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