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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200403-03
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Severity: Normal
Title: Multiple OpenSSL Vulnerabilities
Date: March 17, 2004
Bugs: #44941
ID: 200403-03

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Synopsis
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Three vulnerabilities have been found in OpenSSL via a commercial test suite for the TLS protocol developed by Codenomicon Ltd.



Background
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The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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dev-libs/openssl = 0.9.7d
dev-libs/openssl