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SUSE: 2012:0678-1 Important: OpenSSL Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey May 31, 2012
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SUSE Security Alert: An urgent patch has been released to tackle service interruption vulnerabilities and improve openssl features. Discover further details!
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Summary

This update of openssl fixes the following denial of service vulnerabilities: * Denial of Service via CBC mode handling. (CVE-2012-2333 ) * A deadlock condition introduced by the previous memory leak fix due to entering a lock twice. This would only happen in multithreaded programs. In addition, openssl's cms subcommand (Crypthographic Message Syntax) has been enabled. Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2: zypper in -t patch sdksp1-libopenssl-devel-6350 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1: zypper in -t patch sdksp1-libopenssl-devel-6350

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security advisory denial of service important suse openssl

References

#749735 #761324 #761838

Cross- CVE-2012-2333

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2333.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0678-1
Rating: important

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security advisory denial of service important suse openssl

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