Fedora 23: 2016:2802690366 Moderate: OpenSSL Memory Issues
fedora
March 3, 2016
New upstream release fixing security issues
Summary
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:
New upstream release fixing security issues. Note that SSLv2 was already disabled by default in Fedora OpenSSL.
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1312219 - CVE-2016-0799 OpenSSL: Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1312219
[ 2 ] Bug #1310599 - CVE-2016-0702 OpenSSL: Side channel attack on modular exponentiation
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1310599
[ 3 ] Bug #1310596 - CVE-2016-0705 OpenSSL: Double-free in DSA code
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1310596
Update Instructions
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 .
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Name: openssl
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 1.0.2g
Release: 2.fc23
Summary: Utilities from the general purpose cryptography library with TLS implementation
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