[El-errata] ELSA-2016-0302 Important: Oracle Linux 5 openssl security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Tue Mar 1 15:12:34 PST 2016


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-0302

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-0302.html

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

i386:
openssl-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.i386.rpm
openssl-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.i686.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.i386.rpm
openssl-perl-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.i386.rpm

x86_64:
openssl-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.i686.rpm
openssl-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.i386.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
openssl-perl-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
openssl-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.i686.rpm
openssl-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.ia64.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.ia64.rpm
openssl-perl-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.ia64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol5/SRPMS-updates/openssl-0.9.8e-39.0.1.el5_11.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[0.9.8e-39.0.1]
- To disable SSLv2 client connections create the file
   /etc/sysconfig/openssl-ssl-client-kill-sslv2 (John Haxby) [orabug 
21673934]
- Backport openssl 08-Jan-2015 security fixes (John Haxby) [orabug 20409893]
- fix CVE-2014-3570 - Bignum squaring may produce incorrect results
- fix CVE-2014-3571 - DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record
- fix CVE-2014-3572 - ECDHE silently downgrades to ECDH [Client]

[0.9.8e-39]
- fix CVE-2016-0797 - heap corruption in BN_hex2bn and BN_dec2bn

[0.9.8e-38]
- fix CVE-2015-3197 - SSLv2 ciphersuite enforcement
- disable SSLv2 in the generic TLS method (can be reenabled
   by setting environment variable OPENSSL_ENABLE_SSL2)





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