On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, William Lutter wrote:

> I see this link relative to openssl and heartbleed exploit...
>
> https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt
>
> A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension can be
> used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or server. Only 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-beta releases of OpenSSL are affected including
> 1.0.1f and 1.0.2-beta1.
>
> Affected users should upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.1g. Users unable to immediately
> upgrade can alternatively recompile OpenSSL with -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS. 1.0.2 will be fixed in 1.0.2-beta2.
>
> My SL 6.5 lists
> openssl-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7.x86_64
> openssl098e-0.9.8e-17.el6_2.2.x86_64
> openssl-devel-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7.x86_64
>
> so, it is a vulnerable version of openssl.

No,  that is the updated version.  TUV backports security errata.  They 
key is the .7 in el6_5.7 .

>
> Question 1 I enabled fastbugs in sl-other.repo and well as usual enables 
> in sl.repo, however, do not see an update for openssl.
>
> Will there be one forthcoming from SL or have I missed the proper 
> repository to get it? I have no server on this PC, so I am not worried 
> yet.

It was released on Tuesday morning.

>
> Question 2
> I surmise that older versions of openssl on older SLs are not impacted
> such as
> openssl-0.9.8e-26.el5_9.1.i686

Not impacted.

>
> Bill Lutter
>

-Connie Sieh