By Michael Mimoso September 26, 2016
OpenSSL today released an emergency security update after a patch in its most recent update issued last week introduced a critical vulnerability in the cryptographic library.
The new flaw affects only OpenSSL 1.1.0a, which was made available last Thursday; users are urged to update to 1.1.0b immediately.
The original patch addressed an issue, CVE-2016-6307, where there was excessive memory allocation in tls_get_message_header. OpenSSL rated that flaw a low-severity bug and said it could cause servers to crash.
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