CentOS 6 ELS: openssl package with the fix for several CVEs gradual rollout completed - TuxCare

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A new updated openssl package with the fix for several CVEs within CentOS 6 ELS has been rolled out to 100% and is now available for download from our production repository.

CHANGELOG

openssl-1.0.1e-62.el6.cloudlinux.els

  • Fix handling ASN.1 string as NULL terminated leads to read buffer overrun (CVE-2021-3712)
  • Fix excessively large primes in DH key generation (CVE-2018-0732)
  • Fix RSA key generation cache timing vulnerability (CVE-2018-0737)
  • Fix stack overflow parsing recursive ASN.1 structure (CVE-2018-0739)
  • Fix out-of-bounds read (CVE-2017-3735)

UPDATE COMMAND

yum update openssl*

 

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