RHEL 9 : openssl (RHSA-2026:67165)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 345607

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:67165 advisory.

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.

Security Fix(es):

* openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service via unbounded memory growth in QUIC server (CVE-2026-14456)

* openssl: QUIC server may trigger double free when processing INITIAL packet (CVE-2026-18798)

* openssl: heap buffer overflow in CMS key unwrapping (CVE-2026-63072)

* openssl: invalid pointer dereference in CMP server via crafted protectionAlg (CVE-2026-63076)

* openssl: RPK server signature algorithm selection can dereference a missing certificate (CVE-2026-14457)

* openssl: excessive memory use buffering DTLS records for a future epoch (CVE-2026-54874)

* openssl: untrusted sender DN used as format string in CMP response validation (CVE-2026-63073)

* openssl: CMP indefinite cache growth of ExtraCerts (CVE-2026-63074)

* openssl: QUIC ACK-only packet retention can cause memory exhaustion (CVE-2026-63075)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* openssl: HollowByte remote memory-exhaustion DoS fix may be missing [RHEL 9.8.z] (JIRA:RHEL-232828)

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 345607

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-67165.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/14/2026

Updated: 9/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

Percentile: 96.21

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-63073

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openssl

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-14456, CVE-2026-14457, CVE-2026-18798, CVE-2026-54874, CVE-2026-63072, CVE-2026-63073, CVE-2026-63074, CVE-2026-63075, CVE-2026-63076

CWE: 134, 405, 415, 476, 770, 787

RHSA: 2026:67165

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