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VPR Score: 6.7
Synopsis
The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
A vulnerability was discovered in openssl that causes a race condition within the TLS extension parsing code and which can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2010-3864).
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The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
Solution
Update the affected packages.