RHSA-2022:5818 — Security Advisory

An update for openssl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

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: c_rehash script allows command injection (CVE-2022-1292)

• openssl: the c_rehash script allows command injection (CVE-2022-2068)

• openssl: AES OCB fails to encrypt some bytes (CVE-2022-2097)

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.