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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020-4514 Low: OpenSSL Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat recommends applying a minor security patch for openssl, addressing fixes and improvements in Enterprise Linux 8.
An update for openssl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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.

Summary

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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: openssl (1.1.1g). (BZ#1817593)
Security Fix(es):
* openssl: Integer overflow in RSAZ modular exponentiation on x86_64 (CVE-2019-1551)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux integer overflow low severity security impact openssl

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-1551 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: openssl-1.1.1g-11.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: openssl-1.1.1g-11.el8.aarch64.rpm openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1g-11.el8.aarch64.rpm openssl-debugsource-1.1.1g-11.el8.aarch64.rpm openssl-devel-1.1.1g-11.el8.aarch64.rpm openssl-libs-1.1.1g-11.el8.aarch64.rpm openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1g-11.el8.aarch64.rpm openssl-perl-1.1.1g-11.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: openssl-1.1.1g-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1g-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm openssl-debugsource-1.1.1g-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm openssl-devel-1.1.1g-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm openssl-libs-1.1.1g-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1g-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm openssl-perl-1.1.1g-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: openssl-1.1.1g-11.el8.s390x.rpm openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1g-11.el8.s390x.rpm openssl-debugsource-1.1.1g-11.el8.s390x.rpm openssl-devel-1.1.1g-11.el8.s390x.rpm openssl-libs-1.1.1g-11.el8.s390x.rpm openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1g-11.el8.s390x.rpm openssl-perl-1.1.1g-11.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: openssl-1.1.1g-11.el8.x86_64.rpm openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1g-11.el8.i686.rpm openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1g-11.el8.x86_64.rpm openssl-debugsource-1.1.1g-11.el8.i686.rpm openssl-debugsource-1.1.1g-11.el8.x86_64.rpm openssl-devel-1.1.1g-11.el8.i686.rpm openssl-devel-1.1.1g-11.el8.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4514-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4514
Issue date: 2020-11-03

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 impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux integer overflow low severity security impact openssl

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1780995 - CVE-2019-1551 openssl: Integer overflow in RSAZ modular exponentiation on x86_64

1844607 - OpenSSL will use unsafe FFDH primes with 2048 bit RSA keys

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