Fedora Security Asvisory: openssl

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 23, 2004

Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-095
2004-03-19


Name : openssl
Version : 0.9.7a
Release : 33.10
Summary : The OpenSSL toolkit.

Description :
The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications
between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool
and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms
and protocols.


Update Information:

This update includes OpenSSL packages to fix two security issues
affecting OpenSSL 0.9.7a which allow denial of service attacks; CVE
CAN-2004-0079 and CVE CAN-2003-0851.

Also included are updates for the OpenSSL 0.9.6 and 0.9.6b
compatibility libraries included in Fedora Core 1, fixing a
separate issue which could also lead to a denial of service attack;
CVE CAN-2004-0081.


This update can be downloaded from:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/

e8bdb97523942f9ffaa2266557522cb4
SRPMS/openssl-0.9.7a-33.10.src.rpm
e8b8fa33866d3bfb18a0bb363b7da157
i386/openssl-0.9.7a-33.10.i386.rpm
185ce2fa3dcc7eefd08755fbf32ba4b9
i386/openssl-devel-0.9.7a-33.10.i386.rpm
dffeec7a90d6d455d42f4150f8d87234
i386/openssl-perl-0.9.7a-33.10.i386.rpm
910b24732d051afceda9f9c725b26eaf
i386/debug/openssl-debuginfo-0.9.7a-33.10.i386.rpm
f2c1ee5973157103d6699fb8122a42cd
i386/openssl-0.9.7a-33.10.i686.rpm
aae58c51061b47c4886249787a6b0d12
i386/debug/openssl-debuginfo-0.9.7a-33.10.i686.rpm
ef901bfd90760a5a9bfe04964fc1edaf
x86_64/openssl-0.9.7a-33.10.x86_64.rpm
0efb65591070daa52274aeba71c27c25
x86_64/openssl-devel-0.9.7a-33.10.x86_64.rpm
6c37c57523dafe0125ea7cafd9d03bd1
x86_64/openssl-perl-0.9.7a-33.10.x86_64.rpm
e3fa109733cd72647c96cd02a2c92628
x86_64/debug/openssl-debuginfo-0.9.7a-33.10.x86_64.rpm

bfa1844b85a37b4985bc05078c34dc5a
SRPMS/openssl096-0.9.6-26.src.rpm
a138ec3378572805b3607f0e55eb081a
i386/openssl096-0.9.6-26.i386.rpm
810ef6df3fcc5762b3b69654f9f1e145
i386/debug/openssl096-debuginfo-0.9.6-26.i386.rpm
b54014864a487e940b0a433755e75893
x86_64/openssl096-0.9.6-26.x86_64.rpm
12c3ebe731dc15263ae8e980173c3f9f
x86_64/debug/openssl096-debuginfo-0.9.6-26.x86_64.rpm

216c598e2d8ded8f24f1c3b828051743
SRPMS/openssl096b-0.9.6b-18.src.rpm
5db375e1acdaf84a33ccab3f9f48b171
i386/openssl096b-0.9.6b-18.i386.rpm
b904fa03ff1b6ad06a488e3388b74a58
i386/debug/openssl096b-debuginfo-0.9.6b-18.i386.rpm
d2f6313c15f893b15230a82bc9ca5c5e
x86_64/openssl096b-0.9.6b-18.x86_64.rpm
25804bd47caad8bb6a6d74f46c36cf62
x86_64/debug/openssl096b-debuginfo-0.9.6b-18.x86_64.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the ‘up2date’ command.


Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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