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Red Hat 8 Security Advisory RHSA-2022-5326-01 for Compat-Openssl10 Loop

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Explore the enhanced stability patch for openssl10 within RHEL 8, which tackles problematic infinite loop occurrences linked to certificate handling.
An update for compat-openssl10 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. compat-openssl10 provides the legacy 1.0 version of OpenSSL for use with older binaries.
Security Fix(es):
* compat-openssl10: Infinite loop in BN_mod_sqrt() reachable when parsing certificates (CVE-2022-0778)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat low severity infinite loop compat-openssl10 infinite loop issue SSL/TLS update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0778 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: compat-openssl10-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.src.rpm
aarch64: compat-openssl10-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.aarch64.rpm compat-openssl10-debuginfo-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.aarch64.rpm compat-openssl10-debugsource-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: compat-openssl10-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm compat-openssl10-debuginfo-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm compat-openssl10-debugsource-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: compat-openssl10-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.s390x.rpm compat-openssl10-debuginfo-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.s390x.rpm compat-openssl10-debugsource-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.s390x.rpm
x86_64: compat-openssl10-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.i686.rpm compat-openssl10-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.x86_64.rpm compat-openssl10-debuginfo-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.i686.rpm compat-openssl10-debuginfo-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.x86_64.rpm compat-openssl10-debugsource-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.i686.rpm compat-openssl10-debugsource-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:5326-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5326
Issue date: 2022-06-28

Topic

An update for compat-openssl10 is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 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 Red Hat low severity infinite loop compat-openssl10 infinite loop issue SSL/TLS update

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2062202 - CVE-2022-0778 openssl: Infinite loop in BN_mod_sqrt() reachable when parsing certificates

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