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Fedora 24 OpenSSL Security Update 2017-e853b4144f Critical DoS Fixes

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2017
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Fedora 25 OpenSSH upgrade resolves various vulnerabilities enhancing defense mechanisms against potential cyber intrusions.
Minor upstream release fixing CVE-2016-8610, CVE-2017-3731, CVE-2017-3732.

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:

Minor upstream release fixing CVE-2016-8610, CVE-2017-3731, CVE-2017-3732.

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1384743 - CVE-2016-8610 SSL/TLS: Malformed plain-text ALERT packets could cause remote DoS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384743 [ 2 ] Bug #1416856 - CVE-2017-3732 openssl: BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416856 [ 3 ] Bug #1416852 - CVE-2017-3731 openssl: Truncated packet could crash via OOB read https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416852

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade openssl' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: openssl
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.0.2k
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://www.openssl.org:443/
Summary: Utilities from the general purpose cryptography library with TLS implementation

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