Issued:

2019-03-12

Updated:

2019-03-12

RHSA-2019:0483 - Moderate: openssl security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: openssl security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for openssl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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):

• openssl: Side-channel vulnerability on SMT/Hyper-Threading architectures (PortSmash) (CVE-2018-5407)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• Perform the RSA signature self-tests with SHA-256 (BZ#1673914)

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

Updated Packages

• openssl-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc64.rpm
• openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.i686.rpm
• openssl-perl-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.aarch64.rpm
• openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm
• openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc64.rpm
• openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.s390x.rpm
• openssl-libs-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.s390.rpm
• openssl-libs-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.aarch64.rpm
• openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc.rpm
• openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc.rpm
• openssl-perl-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc64.rpm
• openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc64.rpm
• openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm
• openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.aarch64.rpm
• openssl-perl-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.s390x.rpm
• openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc64le.rpm
• openssl-libs-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc.rpm
• openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc64le.rpm
• openssl-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.src.rpm
• openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.s390.rpm
• openssl-libs-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc64.rpm
• openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.i686.rpm
• openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.aarch64.rpm
• openssl-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.aarch64.rpm
• openssl-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc64le.rpm
• openssl-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.s390x.rpm
• openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.s390x.rpm
• openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.s390.rpm
• openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.s390.rpm
• openssl-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm
• openssl-libs-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.s390x.rpm
• openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc64.rpm
• openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.i686.rpm
• openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc64le.rpm
• openssl-perl-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc64le.rpm
• openssl-libs-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.i686.rpm
• openssl-libs-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm
• openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.aarch64.rpm
• openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm
• openssl-libs-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc64le.rpm
• openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.ppc.rpm
• openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.s390x.rpm
• openssl-perl-1.0.2k-16.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1645695

CVEs

• CVE-2018-0735
• CVE-2018-5407

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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