Medium: openssl

Issue Overview:

It was found that openssl assumed ASN.1 strings to be NUL terminated. A malicious actor may be able to force an application into calling openssl function with a specially crafted, non-NUL terminated string to deliberately hit this bug, which may result in a crash of the application, causing a Denial of Service attack, or possibly, memory disclosure. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and system availability. (CVE-2021-3712)

Affected Packages:

openssl

Issue Correction:
Run yum update openssl to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    openssl-perl-1.0.2k-16.154.amzn1.i686  
    openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.154.amzn1.i686  
    openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.154.amzn1.i686  
    openssl-1.0.2k-16.154.amzn1.i686  
    openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.154.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    openssl-1.0.2k-16.154.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    openssl-static-1.0.2k-16.154.amzn1.x86_64  
    openssl-perl-1.0.2k-16.154.amzn1.x86_64  
    openssl-devel-1.0.2k-16.154.amzn1.x86_64  
    openssl-debuginfo-1.0.2k-16.154.amzn1.x86_64  
    openssl-1.0.2k-16.154.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2021-3712

Mitre: CVE-2021-3712