RHSA-2026:4472 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for compat-openssl11 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 from the 1.1.1 version and is provided for compatibility with previous releases.

Security Fix(es):

• openssl: OpenSSL: Arbitrary code execution due to out-of-bounds write in PKCS#12 processing (CVE-2025-69419)

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 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2430386 - CVE-2025-69419 openssl: OpenSSL: Arbitrary code execution due to out-of-bounds write in PKCS#12 processing

CVEs

• CVE-2025-69419

References

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