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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-5423
2009-05-25 17:28:47
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Name        : openssl
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 0.9.8g
Release     : 9.14.fc9
URL         : https://www.openssl.org:443/
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.

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Update Information:

Security update fixing DoS bugs in DTLS code.  CVE-2009-1377 CVE-2009-1378
CVE-2009-1379
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ChangeLog:

* Thu May 21 2009 Tomas Mraz  0.9.8g-9.14
- fix CVE-2009-1377 CVE-2009-1378 CVE-2009-1379
  (DTLS DoS problems) (#501253, #501254, #501572)
- support compatibility DTLS mode for CISCO AnyConnect (#464629)
- fix crash when parsing malformed mime headers in the smime app
* Wed Jan  7 2009 Tomas Mraz  0.9.8g-9.12
- fix CVE-2008-5077 - incorrect checks for malformed signatures (#476671)
- add -no_ign_eof option (#462393)
- do not add tls extensions to server hello for SSLv3 either
* Wed May 28 2008 Tomas Mraz  0.9.8g-9
- fix CVE-2008-0891 - server name extension crash (#448492)
- fix CVE-2008-1672 - server key exchange message omit crash (#448495)
* Tue May 27 2008 Tomas Mraz  0.9.8g-8
- super-H arch support
- drop workaround for bug 199604 as it should be fixed in gcc-4.3
* Mon May 19 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway  0.9.8g-7
- sparc handling
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #501253 - CVE-2009-1377 OpenSSL: DTLS epoch record buffer memory DoS
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501253
  [ 2 ] Bug #501254 - CVE-2009-1378 OpenSSL: DTLS fragment handling memory DoS
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501254
  [ 3 ] Bug #501572 - CVE-2009-1379 OpenSSL: DTLS pointer use-after-free flaw (DoS)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501572
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update openssl' at the command line.
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