Product Errata

RLSA-2021:0618

Important: stunnel security update

Topic

An update is available for stunnel.

This update affects Rocky Linux 8.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Description

Stunnel is a wrapper for network connections. It can be used to tunnel an unencrypted network connection over an encrypted connection (encrypted using SSL or TLS) or to provide an encrypted means of connecting to services that do not natively support encryption.

Security Fix(es):

* stunnel: client certificate not correctly verified when redirect and verifyChain options are used (CVE-2021-20230)

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.

Issued: 2/22/2021

Type: Security

Severity: Important

Affected Product

  • Rocky Linux 8

References

  • No references