RHBA-2015:1337 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated pyOpenSSL packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements
are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The pyOpenSSL packages provide a high-level wrapper around a subset of the
OpenSSL library for the Python programming language.

The pyOpenSSL packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.13.1, which
provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.
(BZ#1036853)

Users of pyOpenSSL are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 701229 - pyOpenSSL testsuite fails
• BZ - 1036853 - Rebase pyOpenSSL to 0.13.1

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)