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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:5588 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-12-16
Updated:
2020-12-16

RHSA-2020:5588 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: openssl security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for openssl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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: 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.

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.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64

Fixes

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

CVEs

  • CVE-2020-1971

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0

SRPM
openssl-1.1.1-9.el8_0.src.rpm SHA-256: edc08efa358ee328217ef7c7795434518402990bf36b2e86e744808d0be7abd3
ppc64le
openssl-1.1.1-9.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 2d73668cf019ad358f786f160cc6d91cb615b16690a4e1b77e45d9adff550105
openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1-9.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 1853cf3a2a6dac28f25c75023b7012553496f3d6ebc7ae34b51dc6623821fdf5
openssl-debugsource-1.1.1-9.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: b90d5569fd6c5adf5805afba33a2bb46220770c5461420c894cc9938094fef81
openssl-devel-1.1.1-9.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 44521984c0688935f8e822d51a093278f9976a0efc8827843ee2d6feca2ab22f
openssl-libs-1.1.1-9.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: fab822aa2e0051c642c6fa06892823927a4f401d9a18864593649e98f48c5884
openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1-9.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: d7776dc589cd23e00ff53ab755802271b70e5b625df5712403b557fb4c73039e
openssl-perl-1.1.1-9.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 03b7f25bdb35a5f046ad4b174dd1bf53f9526e69fedee4d2295bbd05a32faa9a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0

SRPM
openssl-1.1.1-9.el8_0.src.rpm SHA-256: edc08efa358ee328217ef7c7795434518402990bf36b2e86e744808d0be7abd3
x86_64
openssl-1.1.1-9.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9b8c6576e669e9c96890492e8d696153c6720cd808087379c793b5405924bdcd
openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1-9.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 96e3bada5e7bf4323bbe9430fdb20fe754d2af4c4d2c952920865c2eb311d306
openssl-debuginfo-1.1.1-9.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4f5c0dacbe3e36c82f4e0a86f0b021c18a2077f4d58c6568a8ff8cdbebda17f9
openssl-debugsource-1.1.1-9.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: e47772cd3c27c09a33c0a51bd03154b2fbcf5bd2c6fe50976af05f49a0c0ce6a
openssl-debugsource-1.1.1-9.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c9ff1975477c6f4d8e98a90ff4d7dc234a8d54c9d405d283730bfc4a11369120
openssl-devel-1.1.1-9.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 1e5cc897477245f550572403c359259eb0167260f1574fa0a695af63cfc0c2cd
openssl-devel-1.1.1-9.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f8a08ac2f88ebfdcefaa4d29ad72f603833478cc27c3af40aaa607d0e0f224f7
openssl-libs-1.1.1-9.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 70c16c8cfbd2e3e4afdff827b9cf6eb62398ddd9b66c7d919b0976a7caa9ac10
openssl-libs-1.1.1-9.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: dc0ea1ece25da31d0f9fd55a5ce16cdc8f0e57a6c1037a2d878d12652de399ce
openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1-9.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: bb66b4d974d9c26d9bfbbf35ffad0a87dc66f400ebff82513ec15436304cd20b
openssl-libs-debuginfo-1.1.1-9.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a5ac4bdce66c9a3914019eee0e206d5aecd15ccca12a4a9eaf0695fba942e39c
openssl-perl-1.1.1-9.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 22b86311fe3b8a418086306a4af119b0be5d09d9e47a8d6c70ea43a4e7a4fe59

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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