MGASA-2016-0056

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    MGASA-2016-0056

    Published: 9 Feb 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerability: OpenSSL before 1.0.2f would allow for a process to re-use the same private Diffie-Hellman exponent repeatedly during its entire lifetime, which, given that it also allows to use custom DH parameters which may be based on unsafe primes, could enable an attack that could discover the DH exponent, compromising the security of DH symmetric key negotiation (CVE-2016-0701). In OpenSSL before 1.0.2f, A malicious client can negotiate SSLv2 ciphers that have been disabled on the server and complete SSLv2 handshakes even if all SSLv2 ciphers have been disabled, provided that the SSLv2 protocol was not also disabled via SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2 (CVE-2015-3197).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0056.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17640, https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160128.txt

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: openssl

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/openssl?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.0.2f-1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High