RHSA-2026:36217 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for compat-openssl10 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service.

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

The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. This version of OpenSSL package contains only the libraries and is provided for compatibility with previous releases and software that does not support compilation with OpenSSL-1.1.

Security Fix(es):

• openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service due to NULL pointer dereference in CMS EnvelopedData processing (CVE-2026-28390)
• openssl: Heap Use-After-Free in OpenSSL PKCS7_verify() (CVE-2026-45447)

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle Long Life 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2456314 - CVE-2026-28390 openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service due to NULL pointer dereference in CMS EnvelopedData processing
• BZ - 2481898 - CVE-2026-45447 openssl: Heap Use-After-Free in OpenSSL PKCS7_verify()

CVEs

• CVE-2026-28390
• CVE-2026-45447

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important