Fedora 23: openssl Security Update 2016-2802690366
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 .