Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2011-4
Advisory Release Date: 2011-10-10 23:40 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 14:25 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
An uninitialized variable use flaw was found in OpenSSL. This flaw could cause an application using the OpenSSL Certificate Revocation List (CRL) checking functionality to incorrectly accept a CRL that has a nextUpdate date in the past.
All OpenSSL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. For the update to take effect, all services linked to the OpenSSL library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.
Affected Packages:
openssl
Issue Correction:
Run yum update openssl to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
openssl-static-1.0.0e-2.16.amzn1.i686
openssl-devel-1.0.0e-2.16.amzn1.i686
openssl-1.0.0e-2.16.amzn1.i686
openssl-debuginfo-1.0.0e-2.16.amzn1.i686
openssl-perl-1.0.0e-2.16.amzn1.i686
src:
openssl-1.0.0e-2.16.amzn1.src
x86_64:
openssl-perl-1.0.0e-2.16.amzn1.x86_64
openssl-debuginfo-1.0.0e-2.16.amzn1.x86_64
openssl-devel-1.0.0e-2.16.amzn1.x86_64
openssl-1.0.0e-2.16.amzn1.x86_64
openssl-static-1.0.0e-2.16.amzn1.x86_64