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HistoryMay 31, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

(RHSA-2016:1137) Important: openssl security update

2016-05-3100:00:00
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OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and
Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, as well as a full-strength
general-purpose cryptography library.

Security Fix(es):

  • A flaw was found in the way OpenSSL encoded certain ASN.1 data structures. An
    attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which,
    when verified or re-encoded by OpenSSL, could cause it to crash, or execute
    arbitrary code using the permissions of the user running an application compiled
    against the OpenSSL library. (CVE-2016-2108)

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges Huzaifa Sidhpurwala (Red Hat), Hanno Bock, and David
Benjamin (Google) as the original reporters.