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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:5639 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-12-21
Updated:
2020-12-21

RHSA-2020:5639 - 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 7.2 Advanced Update Support.

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 - AUS 7.2 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 - AUS 7.2

SRPM
openssl-1.0.1e-52.el7_2.src.rpm SHA-256: 118d2c7643134dc7f78fa62452078879cbc1afb71c4b26856f38fa516e918c2d
x86_64
openssl-1.0.1e-52.el7_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4f3ced2ca21c78a18f82e1fabf218a567688a942e1a2885b14a7cd4228fa8d61
openssl-debuginfo-1.0.1e-52.el7_2.i686.rpm SHA-256: 320e5f6d8b21086f74528b4b77621d61d3dab75db473b338542afa88b25df55a
openssl-debuginfo-1.0.1e-52.el7_2.i686.rpm SHA-256: 320e5f6d8b21086f74528b4b77621d61d3dab75db473b338542afa88b25df55a
openssl-debuginfo-1.0.1e-52.el7_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 49e926c407830f579021a26fe15738876bc9bdc9d7ae01178e893ca5da75655b
openssl-debuginfo-1.0.1e-52.el7_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 49e926c407830f579021a26fe15738876bc9bdc9d7ae01178e893ca5da75655b
openssl-devel-1.0.1e-52.el7_2.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8d664f61e5b36b7983b1c8e3829bcf218cc00d4f0d89102505176ed08a10d9e8
openssl-devel-1.0.1e-52.el7_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0051e5b834cd44d5be997bdf9749e415f901817df3191fcb595bcf191139e368
openssl-libs-1.0.1e-52.el7_2.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2072c20178866ea7034c6e84799fb0fd248eeb44799af7cf94d96cc9aeda4e60
openssl-libs-1.0.1e-52.el7_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 475e0e1e07c0b564fd67f4a061f15292def4699a55ee58c9fbc1907ae759c784
openssl-perl-1.0.1e-52.el7_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 13c7275f1c8e4f50224f5f99fe5ee5a7b1824b9a7782fe165a2e04704f4409f6
openssl-static-1.0.1e-52.el7_2.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2487811159814fcbd8cb513f96d1d71ff24301c7355666f68b2360e06e2acf43
openssl-static-1.0.1e-52.el7_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9a3a8ec014e7270082154ad773292aa559dadae6d7bb7b1518602773221b5d1d

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

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