RHSA-2024:9333 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: openssl and openssl-fips-provider security update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 12, 2024

Updated · October 31, 2026

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: Unbounded memory growth with session handling in TLSv1.3 (CVE-2024-2511)

  • openssl: Excessive time spent checking DSA keys and parameters (CVE-2024-4603)

  • openssl: Use After Free with SSL_free_buffers (CVE-2024-4741)

  • openssl: SSL_select_next_proto buffer overread (CVE-2024-5535)

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 9.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2024:9333 — Red Hat Security Advisory: openssl and openssl-fips-provider security update | PulseLinux