RHSA-2016:1137: Important: openssl security update

First published: Tue May 31 2016(Updated: )

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and<br>Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, as well as a full-strength<br>general-purpose cryptography library.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> A flaw was found in the way OpenSSL encoded certain ASN.1 data structures. An</li> attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which,<br>when verified or re-encoded by OpenSSL, could cause it to crash, or execute<br>arbitrary code using the permissions of the user running an application compiled<br>against the OpenSSL library. (CVE-2016-2108)<br>Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting this issue.<br>Upstream acknowledges Huzaifa Sidhpurwala (Red Hat), Hanno Bock, and David<br>Benjamin (Google) as the original reporters.<br>

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