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SUSE update for compat-openssl097g


Secunia ID

SA50594

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-2110, CVE-2012-2131

Release Date

12 Sep 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 compat-openssl097g. 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-2012:1149-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00007.html