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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="202012-13">
+ <title>OpenSSL: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability in OpenSSL might allow remote attackers to cause a
+ Denial of Service condition.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">openssl</product>
+ <announced>2020-12-23</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2020-12-23</revised>
+ <bug>759079</bug>
+ <access>local, remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-libs/openssl" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.1.1i</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.1i</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer
+ (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1/v1.1/v1.2/v1.3) as well
+ as a general purpose cryptography library.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>A null pointer dereference flaw was found in OpenSSL.</p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="low">
+ <p>A remote attacker, able to control the arguments of the GENERAL_NAME_cmp
+ function in an application linked against OpenSSL, could possibly cause a
+ Denial of Service condition.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All OpenSSL users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/openssl-1.1.1i"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1971">CVE-2020-1971</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-12-22T22:47:12Z">whissi</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-12-23T19:52:34Z">whissi</metadata>
+</glsa>