OpenSSL vulnerability fixes, (Thu, Jan 5th)

OpenSSL has addressed six vulnerabilities in OpenSSL 1.0.0f and 0.9.8s.

CVEs include:
DTLS Plaintext Recovery Attack (CVE-2011-4108)
Double-free in Policy Checks (CVE-2011-4109)
Uninitialized SSL 3.0 Padding (CVE-2011-4576)
Malformed RFC 3779 Data Can Cause Assertion Failures (CVE-2011-4577)
SGC Restart DoS Attack (CVE-2011-4619)
Invalid GOST parameters DoS Attack (CVE-2012-0027)

Details here: http://openssl.org/news/secadv_20120104.txt
Downloads here: http://openssl.org/source/

Note that the hyperlink for the Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson paper specific to the DTLS Plaintext Recovery Attack results in a 404 error.

Russ McRee
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