OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a general purpose cryptography library.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
A remote attacker is able to crash applications linked against OpenSSL or could obtain sensitive private-key information via an attack against the Diffie-Hellman (DH) ciphersuite.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All OpenSSL users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.2k"