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(RHSA-2012:0522) Important: openssl security update

Description

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.


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
RedHat 5 openssl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 5 openssl-perl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 6 openssl 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 6 openssl-perl 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 6 openssl-debuginfo 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 4 openssl 0.9.7a-43.20.el4
RedHat 6 openssl-debuginfo 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 5 openssl-perl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 5 openssl-devel 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 6 openssl-devel 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 5 openssl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 4 openssl-perl 0.9.7a-43.20.el4
RedHat 4 openssl-devel 0.9.7a-43.20.el4
RedHat 5 openssl-devel 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 6 openssl-devel 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 5 openssl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 6 openssl-devel 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 4 openssl-perl 0.9.7a-43.20.el4
RedHat 6 openssl-debuginfo 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 5 openssl-devel 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 5 openssl-perl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 6 openssl-devel 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 5 openssl-devel 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 5 openssl-devel 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 6 openssl 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 6 openssl-static 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 6 openssl-perl 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 6 openssl 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 5 openssl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 6 openssl-debuginfo 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 6 openssl-devel 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 4 openssl-devel 0.9.7a-43.20.el4
RedHat 5 openssl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 6 openssl-perl 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 6 openssl-devel 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 5 openssl-perl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 5 openssl-perl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 6 openssl 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 5 openssl-devel 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 6 openssl 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 6 openssl-static 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 5 openssl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 4 openssl 0.9.7a-43.20.el4
RedHat 6 openssl-debuginfo 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 6 openssl-static 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 4 openssl-devel 0.9.7a-43.20.el4
RedHat 4 openssl-perl 0.9.7a-43.20.el4
RedHat 4 openssl 0.9.7a-43.20.el4
RedHat 5 openssl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 4 openssl 0.9.7a-43.20.el4
RedHat 5 openssl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 6 openssl-static 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 5 openssl 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 6 openssl 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 6 openssl 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 5 openssl-devel 0.9.8e-12.el5_6.9
RedHat 6 openssl-perl 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6
RedHat 4 openssl 0.9.7a-43.20.el4
RedHat 6 openssl-debuginfo 1.0.0-10.el6_1.6

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