Weakness in OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu Discovered

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Wed, 05/14/2008 - 22:05

If you are using Debian or any other distro that's based on it (such as Ubuntu), you are advised to update, because a weakness was discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL.

To fix the problem, you will have to update the OpenSSL packages and regenerate any private keys made on Debian (Etch or newer) or Ubuntu 7.04 and higher.

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