(RHSA-2019:3700) Low: openssl security, bug fix, and enhancement update

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: openssl (1.1.1c). (BZ#1643026)

Security Fix(es):

• openssl: timing side channel attack in the DSA signature algorithm (CVE-2018-0734)

• openssl: timing side channel attack in the ECDSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0735)

• openssl: ChaCha20-Poly1305 with long nonces (CVE-2019-1543)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.