Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in various Redhat products, which could be exploited by local users to bypass security restrictions or by remote attackers to cause a denial of service and potentially compromise a vulnerable system. These issues are caused by errors in OpenSSL. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-2759 - VUPEN/ADV-2007-3325

Affected Products

Red Hat Desktop (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3)
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 (Itanium)

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
http://rhn.redhat.com/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3576
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0813.html

ChangeLog

2007-10-22 : Initial release

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