Issued:

2022-11-02

Updated:

2022-11-03

RHSA-2022:7384 - Important: openssl-container security update

Synopsis

Important: openssl-container security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for openssl-container is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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.

[Updated 03 November 2022] This erratum was previously incorrectly marked as having a security impact of Critical, and it failed to mention all issues addressed in this update. The security impact of this erratum has been changed to Important, and CVE-2022-3786 was added to the CVE list. No changes have been made to the container image content.

Description

The ubi9/openssl image provides provides an openssl command-line tool for using the various functions of the OpenSSL crypto library. Using the OpenSSL tool, you can generate private keys, create certificate signing requests (CSRs), and display certificate information.

This updates the ubi9/openssl image in the Red Hat Container Registry.

To pull this container image, run one of the following commands:

podman pull registry.redhat.io/rhel9/openssl (authenticated)
podman pull registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/openssl (unauthenticated)

Security Fix(es):

• OpenSSL: X.509 Email Address Buffer Overflow (CVE-2022-3602)

• OpenSSL: X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow (CVE-2022-3786)

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.

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

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 2134869
• This content is not included.BZ - 2137723
• This content is not included.BZ - 2139104

CVEs

• CVE-2022-3602
• CVE-2022-3786

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• This content is not included.This content is not included.https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/search
• This content is not included.This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2022-004

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/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.