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openssl: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):openssl CVE #(s):CVE-2009-0789 CVE-2009-0591
Created:April 8, 2009 Updated:July 27, 2011
Description: From the CVE entries:

OpenSSL before 0.9.8k on WIN64 and certain other platforms does not properly handle a malformed ASN.1 structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) by placing this structure in the public key of a certificate, as demonstrated by an RSA public key. CVE-2009-0789

The CMS_verify function in OpenSSL 0.9.8h through 0.9.8j, when CMS is enabled, does not properly handle errors associated with malformed signed attributes, which allows remote attackers to repudiate a signature that originally appeared to be valid but was actually invalid. CVE-2009-0591

Alerts:
SUSE SUSE-SU-2011:0847-1 2011-07-27
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0845-1 2011-07-27
SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:010 2009-05-12
Slackware SSA:2009-098-01 2009-04-08

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