Issued:

2023-03-22

Updated:

2023-03-22

RHSA-2023:1405 - 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 8.

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):

• openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName (CVE-2023-0286)

• openssl: timing attack in RSA Decryption implementation (CVE-2022-4304)

• openssl: double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex (CVE-2022-4450)

• openssl: use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF (CVE-2023-0215)

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

Updated Packages

• openssl-libs-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.aarch64.rpm
• openssl-libs-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.i686.rpm
• openssl-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.x86_64.rpm
• openssl-perl-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.x86_64.rpm
• openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.s390x.rpm
• openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.x86_64.rpm
• openssl-devel-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssl-perl-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.aarch64.rpm
• openssl-debugsource-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssl-devel-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.aarch64.rpm
• openssl-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssl-debugsource-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.aarch64.rpm
• openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.i686.rpm
• openssl-devel-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.x86_64.rpm
• openssl-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.src.rpm
• openssl-libs-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssl-libs-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.x86_64.rpm
• openssl-perl-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.aarch64.rpm
• openssl-debugsource-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.i686.rpm
• openssl-devel-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.s390x.rpm
• openssl-libs-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.s390x.rpm
• openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.x86_64.rpm
• openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.i686.rpm
• openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssl-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.s390x.rpm
• openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.s390x.rpm
• openssl-debugsource-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.s390x.rpm
• openssl-devel-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.i686.rpm
• openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.aarch64.rpm
• openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm
• openssl-debugsource-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.x86_64.rpm
• openssl-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.aarch64.rpm
• openssl-perl-1.1.1k-9.el8_7.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 2164440
• This content is not included.BZ - 2164487
• This content is not included.BZ - 2164492
• This content is not included.BZ - 2164494

CVEs

• CVE-2022-4304
• CVE-2022-4450
• CVE-2023-0215
• CVE-2023-0286

References

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

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.