Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: openssl098e security update

Updated openssl098e packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, ar...

CVE-2002-1568

OpenSSL 0.9.6e uses assertions when detecting buffer overflow attacks instead of less severe mechanisms, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via certain messages that cause OpenSSL to abort from a failed assertion, as demonstrated using SSLv2 CLIENTMASTERKEY messages,...