FreeBSD update for OpenSSL

SA49077

CVE-2011-4109, CVE-2011-4576, CVE-2011-4619, CVE-2012-0884, CVE-2012-2110

04 May 2012

31 May 2012

Highly Critical

Vendor Patch

From remote

DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Exposure of sensitive information

Vulnerabilities where documents or credentials are leaked or can be revealed either locally or from remote.

FreeBSD has issued an update for OpenSSL. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and potentially compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA46958
SA47426
SA48847

Update FreeBSD or apply patches.
http://security.freebsd.org/patches/SA-12:01/openssl.patch
http://security.freebsd.org/patches/SA-12:01/openssl-sgc-fix.patch

FreeBSD-SA-12:01:
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl.asc