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Medium ALAS2-2023-1974 1 CVE

Moderate: openssl11 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Mar 2, 2023 · Updated Mar 7, 2023

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-2097: AES OCB mode for 32-bit x86 platforms using the AES-NI assembly optimized implementation will not encrypt the entirety of the data under some circumstances. This could reveal sixteen bytes of data that was preexisting in the memory that wasn't written. In the special case of "in place" encryption, sixteen bytes of the plaintext would be revealed.

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 openssl11 1:1.1.1g-12.amzn2.0.13
Amazon Linux · 2 openssl11-debuginfo 1:1.1.1g-12.amzn2.0.13
Amazon Linux · 2 openssl11-devel 1:1.1.1g-12.amzn2.0.13
Amazon Linux · 2 openssl11-libs 1:1.1.1g-12.amzn2.0.13
Amazon Linux · 2 openssl11-static 1:1.1.1g-12.amzn2.0.13

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2022-2097 Public exploit

    AES OCB fails to encrypt some bytes

    AES OCB mode for 32-bit x86 platforms using the AES-NI assembly optimised implementation will not encrypt the entirety of the data under some circumstances. This could reveal sixteen bytes of data that was preexisting in the memory that wasn't written. In the…

    OpenSSL OpenSSL openssl nodejs Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine crates.io

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-2097.html