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Debian Jessie: DSA-3673-2 Moderate: OpenSSL Certificate Parsing Issue

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2016
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Ubuntu resolves a vulnerability in OpenSSL to address a regression impact on CVE-2021-3450 that influences key exchange.
It was discovered that the original patch applied for CVE-2016-2182 in DSA-3673-1 was incomplete, causing a regression when parsing certificates
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Summary

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1t-1+deb8u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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