[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: openssl-0.9.8g-12.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-0331
2009-01-08 03:18:05.552645
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Name        : openssl
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 0.9.8g
Release     : 12.fc10
URL         : http://www.openssl.org/
Summary     : The OpenSSL toolkit
Description :
The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between
machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared
libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and
protocols.

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Update Information:

Only one important security fix and one trivial enhancement/bug fix.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan  7 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 0.9.8g-12
- fix CVE-2008-5077 - incorrect checks for malformed signatures (#476671)
- add -no_ign_eof option (#462393)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #476671 - CVE-2008-5077 OpenSSL Incorrect checks for malformed signatures
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476671
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