USN-5488-1: OpenSSL vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 21.10
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM

Packages

• openssl - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic library and tools
• openssl1.0 - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) cryptographic library and tools

Details

Chancen and Daniel Fiala discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled the
c_rehash script. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute
arbitrary commands when c_rehash is run.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04

• openssl - 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.5

Ubuntu 21.10

• openssl - 1.1.1l-1ubuntu1.5

Ubuntu 20.04

• openssl - 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.15

Ubuntu 18.04

• openssl - 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.19
• openssl1.0 - 1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.10

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2022-2068

Related notices

• USN-5488-2: libssl-doc, libssl1.0.0, libssl-dev, openssl
• USN-6457-1: libnode-dev, libnode72, nodejs, nodejs-doc
• USN-7018-1: libssl-doc, libssl1.0.0, libssl-dev, openssl