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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-17827
2010-11-17 22:30:35
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Name : openssl
Product : Fedora 14
Version : 1.0.0b
Release : 1.fc14
URL :
http://www.openssl.org/
Summary : A general purpose cryptography library with TLS implementation
Description :
The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between
machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared
libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and
protocols.
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Update Information:
This is a minor update from upstream fixing one race condition theoretically exploitable from remote connections in some SSL servers (CVE-2010-3864). There are also a few additional bug fixes.
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Nov 16 2010 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.0.0b-1
- new upstream version fixing CVE-2010-3864 (#649304)
* Tue Sep 7 2010 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.0.0a-3
- make SHLIB_VERSION reflect the library suffix
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #649304 - CVE-2010-3864 OpenSSL TLS extension parsing race condition
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649304
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update openssl' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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