Gentoo 200902-02 Normal: OpenSSL Certificate Validation Error
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February 12, 2009
An error in the OpenSSL certificate chain validation might allow for spoofing attacks.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200902-02
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: OpenSSL: Certificate validation error
Date: February 12, 2009
Bugs: #251346
ID: 200902-02
Synopsis
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An error in the OpenSSL certificate chain validation might allow for
spoofing attacks.
Background
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OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a general
purpose cryptography library.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-libs/openssl < 0.9.8j >= 0.9.8j
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