RHSA-2024:2447 - Security Advisory

Topic

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: AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries (CVE-2023-2975)
• openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters (CVE-2023-3446)
• OpenSSL: Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value (CVE-2023-3817)
• openssl: Generating excessively long X9.42 DH keys or checking excessively long X9.42 DH keys or parameters may be very slow (CVE-2023-5678)
• openssl: POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC (CVE-2023-6129)
• openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys (CVE-2023-6237)
• openssl: denial of service via null dereference (CVE-2024-0727)

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 9.4 Release Notes linked from 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 for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.4 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2223016 - CVE-2023-2975 openssl: AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries
• BZ - 2224962 - CVE-2023-3446 openssl: Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters
• BZ - 2227852 - CVE-2023-3817 OpenSSL: Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value
• BZ - 2248616 - CVE-2023-5678 openssl: Generating excessively long X9.42 DH keys or checking excessively long X9.42 DH keys or parameters may be very slow
• BZ - 2257571 - CVE-2023-6129 mysql: openssl: POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC
• BZ - 2258502 - CVE-2023-6237 openssl: Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys
• BZ - 2259944 - CVE-2024-0727 openssl: denial of service via null dereference
• RHEL-14083 - OpenSSL should provide FIPS-compliant RSA-OAEP
• RHEL-15990 - NIST SP 800-56Arev3 Section 5.6.2.1 - Missing ECDH Public Key Check
• RHEL-1780 - implicit declaration of function ?EVP_default_properties_enable_fips?
• RHEL-5295 - OpenSSL CMS encryption with ECDSA keys doesn't work
• RHEL-5304 - Keys using explicitly specified elliptic curve parameters work when created using EVP_PKEY_fromdata_init()
• RHEL-17104 - In FIPS mode, OpenSSL must not perform any cryptographic operations when rsa_keygen_pairwise_test fails
• RHEL-17193 - Add a directory for OpenSSL providers configuration
• RHEL-20249 - OpenSSL 3.0: SSL ECDHE Kex fails when pkcs11 engine is set in config file

CVEs

• CVE-2023-2975
• CVE-2023-3446
• CVE-2023-3817
• CVE-2023-5678
• CVE-2023-6129
• CVE-2023-6237
• CVE-2024-0727

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.4_release_notes/index