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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-0325 (openssl)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: openssl-0.9.8g-9.12.fc9
Date:  Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:19:17 +0000
Message-ID:  <20090108041917.CA803208421@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-0325 2009-01-08 03:18:03 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : openssl Product : Fedora 9 Version : 0.9.8g Release : 9.12.fc9 URL : http://www.openssl.org/ Summary : The OpenSSL toolkit 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Only one important security fix and two very simple bugfixes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jan 7 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 0.9.8g-9.12 - fix CVE-2008-5077 - incorrect checks for malformed signatures (#476671) - add -no_ign_eof option (#462393) - do not add tls extensions to server hello for SSLv3 either * Wed May 28 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 0.9.8g-9 - fix CVE-2008-0891 - server name extension crash (#448492) - fix CVE-2008-1672 - server key exchange message omit crash (#448495) * Tue May 27 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 0.9.8g-8 - super-H arch support - drop workaround for bug 199604 as it should be fixed in gcc-4.3 * Mon May 19 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> 0.9.8g-7 - sparc handling -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #476671 - CVE-2008-5077 OpenSSL Incorrect checks for malformed signatures https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476671 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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