Denial Of Service Vulnerability in OpenSSL June-09 (Linux)

Summary
This host has OpenSSL installed and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation will allow attacker to cause DTLS server crash. Impact Level: Application Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to OpenSSL version 0.9.8i or later http://www.openssl.org/source ***** Note: Vulnerability is related to CVE-2009-1386 ***** ***** This might be a False Positive Only version check is being done depending on the publicly available OpenSSL packages. Each vendor might have backported versions of the packages. *****
Insight
A NULL pointer dereference error in ssl/s3_pkt.c file which does not properly check the input packets value via a DTLS ChangeCipherSpec packet that occurs before ClientHello.
Affected
OpenSSL version prior to 0.9.8i on Linux.
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