RHSA-2022:4899HighCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: compat-openssl11 security and bug fix update

Published
June 3, 2022
Last Modified
August 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

CVE-2022-0778 — openssl: Infinite loop in BN_mod_sqrt() reachable when parsing certificates

🎯 Affected products17

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-debuginfo-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-debuginfo-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-debuginfo-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-debuginfo-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-debuginfo-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-debugsource-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-debugsource-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-debugsource-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-debugsource-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • compat-openssl11-debugsource-1:1.1.1k-4.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 For the update to take effect, all services linked to the OpenSSL library must be restarted, or the system rebooted. Workaround: Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.

🔗 References (4)