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OpenSSL Patches Eight New Vulnerabilities

Posted by Soulskill on from the getting-ahead-in-the-game dept.

itwbennett writes: Server administrators are advised to upgrade OpenSSL again to fix eight new vulnerabilities, two of which can lead to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Although the flaws are only of moderate and low severity, "system administrators should plan to upgrade their running OpenSSL server instances in the coming days," said Tod Beardsley, engineering manager at vulnerability intelligence firm Rapid7.

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  1. Re:OpenSSL must fucking die by ruir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That bunch of monkeys have do something better than most, they have given their free time for the project, they have advanced our knowledge of security, they have built a product use by a myriad of OS and vendors for almost 2 decades FOR FREE. Much more than some smuck than comes here ranting, and the idiots that mod him informative.