Another openssl update has been released for Debian GNU/Linux

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2454-2 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Raphael Geissert
April 24, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : openssl
Vulnerability : multiple
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2012-2131

Tomas Hoger, Red Hat, discovered that the fix for CVE-2012-2110 for
the 0.9.8 series of OpenSSL was incomplete. It has been assigned the
CVE-2012-2131 identifier.

For reference, the original description of CVE-2012-2110 from DSA-2454-1
is quoted below:

CVE-2012-2110

Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, discovered a vulnerability
in the way DER-encoded ASN.1 data is parsed that can result in
a heap overflow.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.8o-4squeeze12.

The testing distribution (wheezy), and the unstable distribution (sid),
are not affected by this issue.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.

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