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RHSA-2026:67165

openssl security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Released 2026-09-14 · Red Hat rating Important · View on Red Hat →

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Fixes 10 records

Priority MEDIUM 51

Issue summary: OpenSSL CMP response validation passed an unexpected response sender distinguished name directly as the format string to `ERR_raise_data()`.

CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.01159 Published 2026-08-25 Partial fix · 4.0.2, 3.6.4 +2 CWE-134
Priority MEDIUM 47

Issue summary: ChaCha20-Poly1305 and AES-OCB decryption with an empty ciphertext can report success without verifying the supplied authentication tag when the operation is finalized by calling the EVP_Cipher() function.

CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00254 Published 2026-08-25 Partial fix · 4.0.2, 3.6.4 +3 CWE-354
Priority MEDIUM 42

Issue summary: OpenSSL CMP password based protection verification only checks whether the protectionAlg parameter was not NULL and not its ASN.1 type, before treating it as a PBMParameter.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.01602 Published 2026-08-25 Partial fix · 4.0.2, 3.6.4 +3 CWE-476
Priority MEDIUM 42

Issue summary: QUIC server may double free QRX (QUIC record layer RX) object when channel creation fails for initial packet.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.01697 Published 2026-08-25 Partial fix · 4.0.2, 3.6.4 +1 CWE-415
TI-2026-45026 CVE-2026-63072 · GHSA-wp5f-6q39-q2f4

Heap Buffer Overflow in CMS Key Unwrapping

Priority MEDIUM 41

Issue summary: OpenSSL CMS decryption sizes the key-unwrap output buffer based on querying the unwrapped key size, but the AES-WRAP-PAD unwrap primitive can write and cleanse more bytes than that query reports, causing a…

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00916 Published 2026-08-25 Partial fix · 4.0.2, 3.6.4 +4 CWE-787
Priority MEDIUM 41

Issue summary: In a server or client configuration with RFC7250 Raw Public Keys (RPKs) enabled, and only the private key (with no associated certificate) configured locally, a NULL pointer dereference may occur when the…

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.01167 Published 2026-08-25 Partial fix · 4.0.2, 3.6.4 +2 CWE-476
Priority MEDIUM 40

Issue summary: When OpenSSL processes QUIC traffic from a peer that repeatedly sends ack-eliciting packets while not acknowledging ACK-only responses, the QUIC stack can retain ACK-only packet metadata for the lifetime o…

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.0057 Published 2026-08-25 Partial fix · 4.0.2, 3.6.4 +2 CWE-770
Priority MEDIUM 40

Issue summary: Receiving a DTLS record for a future epoch while a handshake is in progress causes OpenSSL to buffer far more memory than the record itself requires.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00622 Published 2026-08-25 Partial fix · 4.0.2, 3.6.4 +5 CWE-405
Priority MEDIUM 40

Issue summary: When an OpenSSL QUIC server (Listener SSL object) processes valid QUIC Initial packets for unknown destination connection IDs, it can allocate and queue new incoming channels without enforcing any limit.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00729 Published 2026-08-13 Partial fix · 4.0.2, 3.6.4 +1 CWE-770
TI-2026-45028 CVE-2026-63074 · GHSA-2q27-mpm9-44m4

CMP Indefinite Cache Growth of ExtraCerts

Priority LOW 27

Issue summary: The OpenSSL Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) caches additional certificates (extraCerts) sent in a CMP message, but never expunges them (for instance if they are invalid).

CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00588 Published 2026-08-25 Partial fix · 4.0.2, 3.6.4 +3 CWE-770