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Medium RHSA-2020:5476 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: openssl security and bug fix update

Published Sep 13, 2024 · Updated Sep 21, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos openssl 1:1.1.1g-12.el8_3
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos openssl-debuginfo 1:1.1.1g-12.el8_3
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos openssl-debugsource 1:1.1.1g-12.el8_3
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos openssl-devel 1:1.1.1g-12.el8_3
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos openssl-libs 1:1.1.1g-12.el8_3
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos openssl-libs-debuginfo 1:1.1.1g-12.el8_3
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos openssl-perl 1:1.1.1g-12.el8_3

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.9
    CVE-2020-1971 Public exploit

    EDIPARTYNAME NULL pointer dereference

    The X.509 GeneralName type is a generic type for representing different types of names. One of those name types is known as EDIPartyName. OpenSSL provides a function GENERAL_NAME_cmp which compares different instances of a GENERAL_NAME to see if they are equa…

    OpenSSL OpenSSL openssl openssl Debian Ubuntu Alpine

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1903409
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2020/rhsa-2020_5476.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1971
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1971
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1971
  • article
    https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20201208.txt