May 3, 2014 —

Upgrade OPENSSL-1.0.1g to fix Heartbleed in CentOS server

  • Pick a directory to download the openssl files
  • Download openssl
  • Unzip the openssl package:
    • tar -zxf openssl-1.0.1g.tar.gz
      cd openssl-1.0.1g
      ./config
      make
      make test
      make install
  • Check openssl versio after installation :
    • openssl version
  • If it shows old version do the steps below.
    • mv /usr/bin/openssl /root/
      ln -s /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl /usr/bin/openssl
  • Check the version again:
    •  openssl version