(RHSA-2002:161) openssl security update

OpenSSL is a commercial-grade, full-featured, and open source toolkit
which 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.

Portions of the SSL protocol data stream, which include the lengths of
structures which are being transferred, may not be properly validated.
This may allow a malicious server or client to cause an affected
application to crash or enter an infinite loop, which can be used as a
denial of service (DoS) attack if the application is a server. It has not
been verified if this issue could lead to further consequences such as
remote code execution.

These errata packages contain a patch to correct this vulnerability.
Please note that the original patch from the OpenSSL team had a mistake in
it which could possibly still allow buffer overflows to occur. This bug
is also fixed in these errata packages.

NOTE:

Please read the Solution section below as it contains instructions for
making sure that all SSL-enabled processes are restarted after the update
is applied.

Thanks go to the OpenSSL team for providing patches for these issues.