[linux-sparc-announce] LFSSA-2016-0024 Linux for SPARC 1.0 openssl security update

[Announcements for Linux for SPARC]

Linux for SPARC Security Advisory LFSSA-2016-0024

The following updated rpms for Linux for SPARC 1.0 have been uploaded to 
the yum.oracle.com:

sparc64:
openssl-1.0.1e-42.0.1.el6_7.4.sparc64.rpm
openssl-devel-1.0.1e-42.0.1.el6_7.4.sparc64.rpm
openssl-perl-1.0.1e-42.0.1.el6_7.4.sparc64.rpm
openssl-static-1.0.1e-42.0.1.el6_7.4.sparc64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://yum.oracle.com/repo/linux_sparc64/latest/openssl-1.0.1e-42.0.1.el6_7.4.src.rpm



Description of changes:

- New packages added to yum.oracle.com [1.0.1e-42.0.1.4]
- re-incorporate the sparc64 patches 
(philip.copeland at oracle.com/john.haxby at oracle.com)
- disable the no-asm flag for sparc64 
(philip.copeland at oracle.com/john.haxby at oracle.com)

[1.0.1e-42.4]
- fix CVE-2016-0702 - side channel attack on modular exponentiation
- fix CVE-2016-0705 - double-free in DSA private key parsing
- fix CVE-2016-0797 - heap corruption in BN_hex2bn and BN_dec2bn

[1.0.1e-42.3]
- fix CVE-2015-3197 - SSLv2 ciphersuite enforcement
- disable SSLv2 in the generic TLS method