Users of OpenSSL please be advised of a heap based buffer overflow vulnerability that has been identified.
To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)
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MDVSA-2010:238: [MDVSA-2010:238] openssl
Problem Description:
A vulnerability was discovered in openssl that causes a race condition
within the TLS extension parsing code and which can be exploited to
cause a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2010-3864).
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The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
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