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Red Hat: CVE-2016-6306: Important: openssl security update (RHSA-2016:1940)

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Red Hat: CVE-2016-6306: Important: openssl security update (RHSA-2016:1940)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/26/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/21/2016
Modified
01/17/2018

Description

The certificate parser in OpenSSL before 1.0.1u and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2i might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted certificate operations, related to s3_clnt.c and s3_srvr.c.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-openssl
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-perl
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-static

References

  • SUSE-SU-2016:2470
  • RHSA-2016:1940
  • 93153
  • 1036885
  • FreeBSD-SA-16:26
  • GLSA-201612-16
  • CVE-2016-6306
  • DLA-637-1
  • DSA-3673
  • USN-3087-1
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