Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-9333-03

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Low: openssl and openssl-fips-provider security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:9333-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9333
Issue date: 2024-11-12
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-2511
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Summary:

An update for openssl and openssl-fips-provider is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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: Unbounded memory growth with session handling in TLSv1.3 (CVE-2024-2511)

• openssl: Excessive time spent checking DSA keys and parameters (CVE-2024-4603)

• openssl: Use After Free with SSL_free_buffers (CVE-2024-4741)

• openssl: SSL_select_next_proto buffer overread (CVE-2024-5535)

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 9.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

CVEs:

CVE-2024-2511

References:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.5_release_notes/index
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274020
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2281029
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2283757
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294581
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-26271
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-32123
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-38514
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-40723
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-58662