Issued:
2016-05-31
Updated:
2016-05-31

RHSA-2016:1137 - Important: openssl security update

Synopsis

Important: openssl security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for openssl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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

Description

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

Security Fix(es):

  • A flaw was found in the way OpenSSL encoded certain ASN.1 data structures. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which, when verified or re-encoded by OpenSSL, could cause it to crash, or execute arbitrary code using the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the OpenSSL library. (CVE-2016-2108)

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Huzaifa Sidhpurwala (Red Hat), Hanno Bock, and David Benjamin (Google) as the original reporters.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

For the update to take effect, all services linked to the OpenSSL library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

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 Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • openssl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.ppc.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
  • openssl-perl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.i386.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.i686.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.s390x.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.ia64.rpm
  • openssl-perl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.ia64.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.s390.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.s390x.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.s390.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.i686.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.i386.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.ppc.rpm
  • openssl-perl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.s390x.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.s390x.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.ppc64.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.i386.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.s390.rpm
  • openssl-perl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.ppc.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.src.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.ia64.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.ppc.rpm
  • openssl-devel-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.ppc64.rpm
  • openssl-perl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.i386.rpm
  • openssl-debuginfo-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.ppc64.rpm
  • openssl-0.9.8e-40.el5_11.ia64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information