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openSUSE Evergreen 11.4: 2016:1237-1 Important: OpenSSL Issues Resolved

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Calendar Grey May 5, 2016
Scroller Opensuse
Important security update for openSUSE: addresses several openssl flaws and provides detailed patching guidance for users.
An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata is ...

Description

This update for openssl fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2016-2105: EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (bsc#977614)

- CVE-2016-2106: EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (bsc#977615)

- CVE-2016-2107: Padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (bsc#977616)

- CVE-2016-2108: Memory corruption in the ASN.1 encoder (bsc#977617)

- CVE-2016-2109: ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (bsc#976942)

- bsc#976943: Buffer overrun in ASN1_parse

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Topics Covered

security advisory update important openssl error correction

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4:

zypper in -t patch 2016-562=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

libopenssl-devel-1.0.1p-74.1

libopenssl1_0_0-1.0.1p-74.1

libopenssl1_0_0-debuginfo-1.0.1p-74.1

openssl-1.0.1p-74.1

openssl-debuginfo-1.0.1p-74.1

openssl-debugsource-1.0.1p-74.1

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (x86_64):

libopenssl-devel-32bit-1.0.1p-74.1

libopenssl1_0_0-32bit-1.0.1p-74.1

libopenssl1_0_0-debuginfo-32bit-1.0.1p-74.1

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (noarch):

openssl-doc-1.0.1p-74.1

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (ia64):

libopenssl1_0_0-debuginfo-x86-1.0.1p-74.1

libopenssl1_0_0-x86-1.0.1p-74.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2105.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2106.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2107.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2108.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2109.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/976942

https://bugzilla.suse.com/976943

https://bugzilla.suse.com/977614

https://bugzilla.suse.com/977615

https://bugzilla.suse.com/977616

https://bugzilla.suse.com/977617

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1237-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Evergreen 11.4

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