Canonical Patches Critical OpenSSL Vulnerabilities in All Supported Ubuntu OSes

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Today, December 7, 2015, Canonical’s Marc Deslauriers published details about new security fixes for the OpenSSL packages in all supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems. According to the Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2830-1, there were five security flaws in the OpenSSL packages of the Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet), Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) OSes, as well as any of its official flavors and derivatives, including Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, and Ubuntu MATE.