Is openssl11 on Amazon Linux 2 up-to-date with security patches?

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In this post https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=7562 it was announced that openssl 1.1.1 was available as a separate package and could be used for building ones own code against on the platform. Is that release still up-to-date with security patches? If I install openssl11 and run "openssl11 version" I get "OpenSSL 1.1.1c FIPS 28 May 2019". The current version is 1.1.1h. I know that sometimes the RHEL/CentOS-type distributions backport security patches without updating internal version numbers, but I'm a bit skeptical because the date listed is 2019 and there was a high severity bug that had a patch announced in April 2020 https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities-1.1.1.html and I don't see any indication that it's been fixed in the package.

asked 3 years ago6193 views
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The only entry listed on the Amazon Linux 2 Security Patches page https://alas.aws.amazon.com/alas2.html for openssl11 is ALAS2-2020-1456 https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2020-1456.html. It says it was released July 2020, which makes me think that it'd be up-to-date, but the CVEs mentioned there don't line up with the April 2020 CVE listed on the OpenSSL page https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities-1.1.1.html. So I'm just pretty confused as to what's exactly up-to-date where.

answered 3 years ago
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Ah, I think I see what's happening now. CVE-2020-1967 didn't affect 1.1.1c, so in fact all security patches have been applied to the openssl11 packages. (Well, maybe not CVE-2020-1971 that just was announced today, but hopefully we'll see them patching that soon too.)

Hopefully reading through this confusion of mine helped someone else, though. :)

answered 3 years ago
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And indeed, they just patched CVE-2020-1971 for both openssl and openssl11.
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2020-1573.html

All my fears that they weren't paying attention to updates are assuaged. Thanks!

answered 3 years ago
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openssl11, while still at version 1.1.1c is receiving full support. As others have noted in this thread, we have been backporting patches for vulnerabilities that we have found to be applicable to 1.1.1c and we intend to keep updating the openssl11 package in the future.

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answered 3 years ago

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