Issued:
2015-12-14
Updated:
2015-12-14

RHSA-2015:2616 - Moderate: openssl security update

Synopsis

Moderate: openssl security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated openssl packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Description

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols, as well as a full-strength, general purpose cryptography library.

A memory leak vulnerability was found in the way OpenSSL parsed PKCS#7 and CMS data. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause an application that parses PKCS#7 or CMS data from untrusted sources to use an excessive amount of memory and possibly crash. (CVE-2015-3195)

All openssl users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. For the update to take effect, all services linked to the OpenSSL library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • openssl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.ia64.rpm
  • openssl-perl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.ia64.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.s390x.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.s390x.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.s390x.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.s390.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.i386.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.i686.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.i686.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.i386.rpm
  • openssl-perl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.ppc.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.ppc.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.ia64.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.ppc64.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.i386.rpm
  • openssl-perl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.ppc.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.s390.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.ppc64.rpm
  • openssl-perl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.i386.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.ppc64.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.src.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.s390.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.ppc.rpm
  • openssl-perl-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.s390x.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-37.el5_11.ia64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information