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Gentoo: GLSA 200510-11 Low Severity: OpenSSL SSL 2.0 Rollback Risk

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2005
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Gentoo advisory GLSA 200510-12 highlights a minor vulnerability in the handling of SSL 2.0 in the OpenSSL library. Recommended actions for users are included.
When using a specific option, OpenSSL can be forced to fallback to the less secure SSL 2.0 protocol.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: OpenSSL: SSL 2.0 protocol rollback Date: October 12, 2005 Bugs: #108852 ID: 200510-11

Synopsis ======= When using a specific option, OpenSSL can be forced to fallback to the less secure SSL 2.0 protocol.
Background ========= OpenSSL is a toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer, Transport Layer Security protocols and a general-purpose cryptography library.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ...

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