Summary
The remote host is missing an update as announced
via advisory SSA:2005-286-01.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=SSA:2005-286-01
Insight
New OpenSSL packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Under certain conditions, an attacker acting as a 'man in the middle' may force a client and server to fall back to the less-secure SSL 2.0 protocol.
More details about this issue may be found here:
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20051011.txt
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-2969 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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