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Medium ALSA-2026:0337 1 CVE

Moderate: openssl security update

Published Jan 8, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.

Security Fix(es):

* openssl: Out-of-bounds read & write in RFC 3211 KEK Unwrap (CVE-2025-9230)

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 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 openssl 1:1.1.1k-14.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 openssl-devel 1:1.1.1k-14.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 openssl-libs 1:1.1.1k-14.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 openssl-perl 1:1.1.1k-14.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Critical 9.8

    Out-of-bounds read & write in RFC 3211 KEK Unwrap

    Issue summary: An application trying to decrypt CMS messages encrypted using password based encryption can trigger an out-of-bounds read and write. Impact summary: This out-of-bounds read may trigger a crash which leads to Denial of Service for an application…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9230
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2396054
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-0337.html