[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: openssl-1.0.0h-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-4630
2012-03-24 17:39:47
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Name        : openssl
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.0.0h
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://www.openssl.org/
Summary     : A general purpose cryptography library with TLS implementation
Description :
The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between
machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared
libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and
protocols.

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Update Information:

This minor update from upstream fixes two security vulnerabilities with moderate and low impact.

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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #802489 - CVE-2012-1165 openssl: mime_param_cmp NULL dereference crash
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802489
  [ 2 ] Bug #802725 - CVE-2012-0884 openssl: CMS and PKCS#7 Bleichenbacher attack
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802725
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update openssl' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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