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Fedora: FLSA:1395 Critical Update for OpenSSL Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2004
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The recent updates to OpenSSL in Fedora tackle severe weaknesses that might enable denial of service incidents, greatly enhancing the security of the system as a whole.
Testing uncovered a bug in older versions of OpenSSL 0.9.6 prior to 0.9.6d that can lead to a denial of service attack (infinite loop).

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security advisory denial of service critical Fedora OpenSSL

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References


CVE -CVE-2003-0851 CVE -CVE-2004-0081 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004:119.html





9. Contact:

The Fedora Legacy security contact is <secnotice@fedoralegacy.org>. More project details at http://www.fedoralegacy.org



- -- Jesse Keating RHCE ( ) Fedora Legacy Team (http://www.fedoralegacy.org)



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