Scientific Linux: Important OpenSSL Update for Buffer Overflow Risk

Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:34:23 -0500
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Patrick Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: openssl on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Important: openssl security update
Issue Date: 2012-04-24
CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-2110

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3)
and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols, as well as a
full-strength, general purpose cryptography library.

Multiple numeric conversion errors, leading to a buffer overflow, were
found in the way OpenSSL parsed ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) data
from BIO (OpenSSL's I/O abstraction) inputs. Specially-crafted DER
(Distinguished Encoding Rules) encoded data read from a file or other BIO
input could cause an application using the OpenSSL library to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2110)

All OpenSSL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
a backported patch to resolve this issue. For the update to take effect,
all services linked to the OpenSSL library must be restarted, or the system
rebooted.

SL5:
 i386
 openssl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i386.rpm
 openssl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i686.rpm
 openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i386.rpm
 openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i686.rpm
 openssl-devel-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i386.rpm
 openssl-perl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i386.rpm
 openssl097a-0.9.7a-11.el5_8.2.i386.rpm
 openssl097a-debuginfo-0.9.7a-11.el5_8.2.i386.rpm
 x86_64
 openssl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i686.rpm
 openssl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.x86_64.rpm
 openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i386.rpm
 openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i686.rpm
 openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.x86_64.rpm
 openssl-devel-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i386.rpm
 openssl-devel-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.x86_64.rpm
 openssl-perl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.x86_64.rpm
 openssl097a-0.9.7a-11.el5_8.2.i386.rpm
 openssl097a-0.9.7a-11.el5_8.2.x86_64.rpm
 openssl097a-debuginfo-0.9.7a-11.el5_8.2.i386.rpm
 openssl097a-debuginfo-0.9.7a-11.el5_8.2.x86_64.rpm
SL6:
 i386
 openssl-1.0.0-20.el6_2.4.i686.rpm
 openssl-debuginfo-1.0.0-20.el6_2.4.i686.rpm
 openssl-devel-1.0.0-20.el6_2.4.i686.rpm
 openssl-perl-1.0.0-20.el6_2.4.i686.rpm
 openssl-static-1.0.0-20.el6_2.4.i686.rpm
 openssl098e-0.9.8e-17.el6_2.2.i686.rpm
 openssl098e-debuginfo-0.9.8e-17.el6_2.2.i686.rpm
 x86_64
 openssl-1.0.0-20.el6_2.4.i686.rpm
 openssl-1.0.0-20.el6_2.4.x86_64.rpm
 openssl-debuginfo-1.0.0-20.el6_2.4.i686.rpm
 openssl-debuginfo-1.0.0-20.el6_2.4.x86_64.rpm
 openssl-devel-1.0.0-20.el6_2.4.i686.rpm
 openssl-devel-1.0.0-20.el6_2.4.x86_64.rpm
 openssl-perl-1.0.0-20.el6_2.4.x86_64.rpm
 openssl-static-1.0.0-20.el6_2.4.x86_64.rpm
 openssl098e-0.9.8e-17.el6_2.2.i686.rpm
 openssl098e-0.9.8e-17.el6_2.2.x86_64.rpm
 openssl098e-debuginfo-0.9.8e-17.el6_2.2.i686.rpm
 openssl098e-debuginfo-0.9.8e-17.el6_2.2.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team