RHSA-2023:1437HighCVSS 7.4

Red Hat Security Advisory: openssl security update

Published
March 23, 2023
Last Modified
August 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2023-0286 →

📋 Description

CVE-2023-0286 — openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName

🎯 Affected products21

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-debuginfo-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-debuginfo-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-debuginfo-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-debugsource-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-debugsource-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-debugsource-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-devel-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-devel-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-devel-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-libs-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-libs-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-libs-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-libs-debuginfo-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-libs-debuginfo-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-libs-debuginfo-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-perl-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)
  • openssl-perl-1:1.1.1c-6.el8_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.1)

✅ 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: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

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