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SUSE update for openssl


Secunia ID

SA49224

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-2110, CVE-2012-2131

Release Date

17 May 2012

Last Change

31 May 2012

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
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.

Description

SUSE has issued an update for openssl. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA48847

Solution

Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.

Original Advisory

SUSE-SU-2012:0623-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00014.html

SUSE-SU-2012:0637-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00015.html

SUSE-SU-2012:0674-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00018.html