OpenSSL: Denial of service

OpenSSL: Denial of service A vulnerability in OpenSSL might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition. openssl 2020-12-23 2020-12-23 759079 local, remote 1.1.1i 1.1.1i

OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1/v1.1/v1.2/v1.3) as well as a general purpose cryptography library.

A null pointer dereference flaw was found in OpenSSL.

A remote attacker, able to control the arguments of the GENERAL_NAME_cmp function in an application linked against OpenSSL, could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All OpenSSL users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/openssl-1.1.1i"

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