Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry of the Google Security Team discovered a buffer overflow in SSL_get_shared_ciphers utility function, used by some applications such as exim and mysql. An attacker could send a list of ciphers that would overrun a buffer CVE-2006-3738 Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry of the Google Security Team discovered a possible DoS in the sslv2 client code. Where a client application uses OpenSSL to make a SSLv2 connection to a malicious server that server could cause the client to crash. CVE-2006-4343 EMBARGO until 20060928
Created attachment 136527 [details] Proposed patch CVE-2006-4343
Created attachment 136528 [details] Proposed patch CVE-2006-3738
removing embargo, public at http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20060928.txt
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0695.html