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OpenSSL: Critical Security Flaw Addressed in Latest Update

Calendar Nov 04, 2022 • User Avatar Brittany Day
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Yesterday, we wrote about the waited-for-with-bated-breath OpenSSL update that attracted many column-kilometres of media attention last week.

The OpenSSL team announced in advance, as it usually does, that a new version of its popular cryptographic library would soon be released.

 

This notification stated that the update would patch against a security hole with a CRITICAL severity rating, the project’s highest.