OpenSSL patches two high-severity flaws
OpenSSL has released versions 1.0.2h and 1.0.1t of its open source cryptographic library, fixing multiple security vulnerabilities that can lead to traffic being decrypted, denial-of-service attacks, and arbitrary code execution. One of the high-severity vulnerabilities is actually a hybrid of two low-risk bugs and can cause OpenSSL to crash.
Two seemingly unrelated bugs can be chained together to create a serious security problem. The first bug in CVE-2016-2108 is an issue with the ASN.1 parse
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