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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200912-01
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 01, 2009
Bugs: #270305, #280591, #292022
ID: 200912-01
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL might allow remote attackers to
conduct multiple attacks, including the injection of arbitrary data
into encrypted byte streams.
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 < 0.9.8l-r2 >= 0.9.8l-r2
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