4.210. openssl-ibmca
An updated openssl-ibmca package that fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The openssl-ibmca package provides a dynamic OpenSSL engine for the IBM eServer Cryptographic Accelerator (ICA) crypto hardware on IBM eServer zSeries machines.
The openssl-ibmca package has been upgraded to upstream version 1.2, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#694194)
All users of openssl-ibmca are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bug and adds these enhancements.
An updated openssl-ibmca package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The openssl-ibmca package provides a dynamic OpenSSL engine for the IBM eServer Cryptographic Accelerator (ICA) crypto hardware on IBM eServer zSeries machines.
Bug Fix
- BZ#804612
- Due to a bug in the ibmca OpenSSL engine code, applications using the OpenSSL library terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault when running the ibmca engine with ciphers enabled in output feedback (OFB) mode on IBM System z, z196 series, hardware. A patch has been applied to address this issue, ensuring that the OpenSSL library no longer crashes under these circumstances.
All users of openssl-ibmca are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.
