RHEL 9 clients with FIPS enabled are experiencing communication issues with Satellite 6.11.

Issue

• After applying the openssl-libs updates mentioned in RHSA-2023:3722, we are encountering errors when attempting to connect to Red Hat Satellite 6 while in FIPS mode.

• The recent update to the openssl package has caused a disruption in the functioning of yum.

  Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms':
  - Curl error (35): SSL connect error for https://satellite.example.com/pulp/content/Default_Organization/Library/content/dist/rhel9/9/x86_64/baseos/os/repodata/repomd.xml 
  [error:1C8000E9:Provider routines::ems not enabled]
  

• Encountering the error curl: (35) error:1C8000E9:Provider routines::ems not enabled while attempting to download the consumer package for registering RHEL 9.

• Communication failure is hindering the new registration process of RHEL 9 systems with Red Hat Satellite 6. The error encountered during the registration attempt is as follows:

  # curl --insecure --output katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm https://satellite.example.com/pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm
   curl: (35) error:1C8000E9:Provider routines::ems not enabled
  

  # curl -sS --insecure 'https://satellite.example.com:9090/register?activation_keys=AK&force=true&hostgroup_id=1&ignore_subman_errors=true&lifecycle_environment_id=1&location_id=2&organization_id=1&update_packages=false' -H 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0LCJpYXQiOjE2ODk3MjM4MTcsImp0aSI6ImUyZmYxNTI5YWNlNmQzNGMyNjBiNTBhZjkyNDcyNmUxY2I0ODg1ZDJlYWQ3NmM1NmQ5ZTM1ZThmNmMyMGFjN2QiLCJleHAiOjE2ODk3MzgyMTcsInNjb3BlIjoicmVnaXN0cmF0aW9uI2dsb2JhbCByZWdpc3RyYXRpb24jaG9zdCJ9.DHcwbEzkq6tV1WHT34d2Xqm1pG0kBdhp5tpwJKaZhSk' | bash
  curl: (35) error:1C8000E9:Provider routines::ems not enabled