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Fedora 26: FEDORA-2018-1b4f1158e2 critical: compat-openssl10 DoS Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey April 9, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A small patch for Fedora 26 tackles a stack overflow vulnerability found in compat-openssl10, identified as CVE-2018-0739.
Minor security update from upstream fixing CVE-2018-0739

Summary

The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between

machines. This version of OpenSSL package contains only the libraries

and is provided for compatibility with previous releases and software

that does not support compilation with OpenSSL-1.1.

Minor security update from upstream fixing CVE-2018-0739

[ 1 ] Bug #1561266 - CVE-2018-0739 openssl: Handling of crafted recursive ASN.1 structures can cause a stack overflow and resulting denial of service

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1561266

su -c 'dnf upgrade compat-openssl10' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 1.0.2o
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: Compatibility version of the OpenSSL library

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