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Fedora 9: 2009-1914 Moderate: perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-DSA Error Handling Fix

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Calendar Grey February 19, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-DSA package in Fedora has been updated to enhance error handling for CVE-2009-0129, improving security and robustness for users
Fixes CVE-2009-0129: The Crypto::OpenSSL::DSA module now croaks upon error rather than returning a -1 to ensure programmers are not caught by surprise which only checking for non...

Summary

Crypt::OpenSSL::DSA - Digital Signature Algorithm using OpenSSL

Fixes CVE-2009-0129: The Crypto::OpenSSL::DSA module now croaks upon error

rather than returning a -1 to ensure programmers are not caught by surprise

which only checking for non-zero results.

* Wed Feb 18 2009 Wes Hardaker - 0.13-9

- Version bump to solve build issues

* Wed Feb 18 2009 Wes Hardaker - 0.13-8

- Fix CVE-2009-0129 and have do_verify croak on fatal error

[ 1 ] Bug #486012 - CVE-2009-0129 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-DSA: do_verify() doesn't fail on errors in OpenSSL DSA_do_verify()

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486012

su -c 'yum update perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-DSA' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

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

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 9
Version: 0.13
Release: 9.fc9
Summary: Perl interface to OpenSSL for DSA

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