USN-5710-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 22.10
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Packages

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

Details

It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain X.509 Email
Addresses. If a certificate authority were tricked into signing a
specially-crafted certificate, a remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. The
default compiler options for affected releases reduce the vulnerability to
a denial of service. (CVE-2022-3602, CVE-2022-3786)

It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled applications creating
custom ciphers via the legacy EVP_CIPHER_meth_new() function. This issue
could cause certain applications that mishandled values to the function to
possibly end up with a NULL cipher and messages in plaintext.
(CVE-2022-3358)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10

• libssl3 - 3.0.5-2ubuntu2

Ubuntu 22.04

• libssl3 - 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.7

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all
the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2022-3358
• CVE-2022-3602
• CVE-2022-3786