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High RHSA-2026:1720 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: openssl security update

Published Feb 3, 2026 · Updated Oct 17, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 openssl 1:1.0.2k-26.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 openssl-debuginfo 1:1.0.2k-26.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 openssl-devel 1:1.0.2k-26.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 openssl-libs 1:1.0.2k-26.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 openssl-perl 1:1.0.2k-26.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 openssl-static 1:1.0.2k-26.el7_9.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2025-9230

    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…

    OpenSSL OpenSSL openssl nodejs Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2396054
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_1720.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9230
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9230
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9230