By the way, there is a security bug (buffer overflow) in the openssl please 
install its new update:

for redhat 7.1 i386 its name is:
openssl-0.9.6-13.i386.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.6-13.i386.rpm

good luck,


At 14:35 09.09.2002, Oded Arbel wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Kingsley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> > Have checked and I have version
> >
> > openssl-0.9.6b-28 and openssl-devel-0.9.6b-28.
>
> > I have tried to find a latter version of this libraries, but
> > cannot find
> > (except on www.openssl.org but these are source files and
> > cannot find any
> > instructions on how to compile or get rpm --anybody help?)
>
><shameless plug>
>It is quite unfortunate that RedHat does not consider the security of 
>their users important enough to supply a recent version of OpenSSL, 
>especially considering the fact that all recent OpenSSL release were done 
>in order to solve security issues with the OpenSSL implementation.
>The most recent version of OpenSSL found on the updates directory in 
>RedHat's FTP site is 0.9.6b. they also have the 0.9.5 version.
>
>In light of this fact, I'd like to recommend to any user who feels his 
>security on the internet is important, to stop using RedHat and instead 
>use a different Linux distribution - one that does think security is 
>important - such as Mandrake or SuSE.
></shameless plug>
>
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