[El-errata] ELSA-2013-0587 Moderate: Oracle Linux 5 openssl security update

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Tue Mar 5 06:50:28 PST 2013


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2013-0587

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0587.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 5 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
openssl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.i386.rpm
openssl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.i686.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.i386.rpm
openssl-perl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.i386.rpm

x86_64:
openssl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.i686.rpm
openssl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.x86_64.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.i386.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.x86_64.rpm
openssl-perl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
openssl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.i686.rpm
openssl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.ia64.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.ia64.rpm
openssl-perl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.ia64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/openssl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[0.9.8e-26.1]
- fix for CVE-2013-0169 - SSL/TLS CBC timing attack (#907589)
- fix for CVE-2013-0166 - DoS in OCSP signatures checking (#908052)
- enable compression only if explicitly asked for or OPENSSL_DEFAULT_ZLIB
   environment variable is set (fixes CVE-2012-4929 #857051)
- use __secure_getenv() everywhere instead of getenv() (#839735)

[0.9.8e-26]
- fix for CVE-2012-2333 - improper checking for record length in DTLS 
(#820686)

[0.9.8e-25]
- fix for CVE-2012-2110 - memory corruption in asn1_d2i_read_bio() (#814185)

[0.9.8e-23]
- fix problem with the SGC restart patch that might terminate handshake
   incorrectly
- fix for CVE-2012-0884 - MMA weakness in CMS and PKCS#7 code (#802725)
- fix for CVE-2012-1165 - NULL read dereference on bad MIME headers 
(#802489)






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