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Fedora 42 OpenSSL Critical PKCS#12 DoS Issue FEDORA-2026-9bb4c555f1

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Calendar Grey January 31, 2026
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Critical security advisory for Fedora 42 to fix OpenSSL issues with PKCS#12, impacting secure communications.
Don't crash on parsing PKCS#12 without MAC Resolves: CVE-2025-11187 Resolves: CVE-2025-15467 Resolves: CVE-2025-69419

Summary

The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between

machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared

libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and

protocols.

Update Information:

Don't crash on parsing PKCS#12 without MAC Resolves: CVE-2025-11187 Resolves: CVE-2025-15467 Resolves: CVE-2025-69419

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Change Log

* Tue Jan 20 2026 Dmitry Belyavskiy - 1:3.2.6-3 - Don't crash on parsing PKCS#12 without MAC - Resloves: CVE-2025-11187 - Resloves: CVE-2025-15467 - Resloves: CVE-2025-69419

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-9bb4c555f1 2026-01-31 17:08:28.805806+00:00 Name : openssl Product : Fedora 42 Version : 3.2.6 Release : 3.fc42 URL : http://www.openssl.org/ Summary : Utilities from the general purpose cryptography library with TLS implementation Description : The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-9bb4c555f1' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: openssl
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 3.2.6
Release: 3.fc42
URL: http://www.openssl.org/
Summary: Utilities from the general purpose cryptography library with TLS implementation

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Topics Covered

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