Important: openssl

Issue Overview:

Bodo Moller, Thai Duong and Krzysztof Kotowicz of Google discovered a flaw in the design of SSL version 3.0 that would allow an attacker to calculate the plaintext of secure connections, allowing, for example, secure HTTP cookies to be stolen.

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/10/this-poodle-bites-exploiting-ssl-30.html
https://www.openssl.org/~bodo/ssl-poodle.pdf

Special notes:

We have backfilled our 2014.03, 2013.09, and 2013.03 Amazon Linux AMI repositories with updated openssl packages that fix CVE-2014-3566.

For 2014.09 Amazon Linux AMIs, openssl-1.0.1i-1.79.amzn1 addresses this CVE. Running yum clean all followed by yum update openssl will install the fixed package.

For Amazon Linux AMIs locked (https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/faqs/#lock) to the 2014.03 repositories, openssl-1.0.1i-1.79.amzn1 also addresses this CVE. Running yum clean all followed by yum update openssl will install the fixed package.

For Amazon Linux AMIs locked (https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/faqs/#lock) to the 2013.09 or 2013.03 repositories, openssl-1.0.1e-4.60.amzn1 addresses this CVE. Running yum clean all followed by yum update openssl will install the fixed package.

If you are using a pre-2013.03 Amazon Linux AMI, we encourage you to move to a newer version of the Amazon Linux AMI as soon as possible.

Affected Packages:

openssl

Issue Correction:
Run yum update openssl to update your system. Note that you may need to run yum clean all first.

New Packages:

i686:  
    openssl-1.0.1i-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    openssl-debuginfo-1.0.1i-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    openssl-perl-1.0.1i-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    openssl-devel-1.0.1i-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    openssl-static-1.0.1i-1.79.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    openssl-1.0.1i-1.79.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    openssl-debuginfo-1.0.1i-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    openssl-static-1.0.1i-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    openssl-perl-1.0.1i-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    openssl-devel-1.0.1i-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    openssl-1.0.1i-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-3566

Mitre: CVE-2014-3566