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Red Hat: RHSA-2020-5476-01 Important: openssl Crash Risk

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial enhancement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 targets vulnerabilities related to openssl and resolves existing bugs.
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.
Security Fix(es):
* openssl: EDIPARTYNAME NULL pointer de-reference (CVE-2020-1971)
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):
* Reject certificates with explicit EC parameters in strict mode (BZ#1891541)
* Add FIPS selftest for HKDF, SSKDF, SSHKDF, and TLS12PRF; add DH_compute_key KAT to DH selftest (BZ#1891542)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue red hat bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact openssl important update openssl fix crash risk

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1971 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: openssl-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.src.rpm
aarch64: openssl-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.aarch64.rpm openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.aarch64.rpm openssl-debugsource-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.aarch64.rpm openssl-devel-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.aarch64.rpm openssl-libs-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.aarch64.rpm openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.aarch64.rpm openssl-perl-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: openssl-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm openssl-debugsource-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm openssl-devel-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm openssl-libs-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm openssl-perl-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: openssl-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.s390x.rpm openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.s390x.rpm openssl-debugsource-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.s390x.rpm openssl-devel-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.s390x.rpm openssl-libs-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.s390x.rpm openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.s390x.rpm openssl-perl-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.s390x.rpm
x86_64: openssl-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.x86_64.rpm openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.i686.rpm openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.x86_64.rpm openssl-debugsource-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.i686.rpm openssl-debugsource-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.x86_64.rpm openssl-devel-1.1.1g-12.el8_3.i686.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5476-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5476
Issue date: 2020-12-15

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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue red hat bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact openssl important update openssl fix crash risk

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1903409 - CVE-2020-1971 openssl: EDIPARTYNAME NULL pointer de-reference

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