Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
High ALSA-2025:7895 1 CVE

Important: compat-openssl10 security update

Published May 19, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. This version of OpenSSL package contains only the libraries and is provided for compatibility with previous releases and software that does not support compilation with OpenSSL-1.1.

Security Fix(es):

* openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName (CVE-2023-0286)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 compat-openssl10 1:1.0.2o-4.el8_10.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.4
    CVE-2023-0286 Public exploit EPSS 68%

    X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName

    There is a type confusion vulnerability relating to X.400 address processing inside an X.509 GeneralName. X.400 addresses were parsed as an ASN1_STRING but the public structure definition for GENERAL_NAME incorrectly specified the type of the x400Address fiel…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0286
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2164440
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-7895.html