USN-7891-1: rust-openssl vulnerabilities

USN-7891-1: rust-openssl vulnerabilities

Publication date: 26 November 2025
Overview: Several security issues were fixed in rust-openssl.

Packages

• rust-openssl - OpenSSL bindings for Rust

Details
Matt Mastracci discovered that rust-openssl was incorrectly handling server
lifetimes in certain functions. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause a denial of service or run arbitrary memory content to the client.
(CVE-2025-24898)

It was discovered that rust-openssl was incorrectly handling empty strings
when setting the host in certain functions. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-53159)

It was discovered that rust-openssl was incorrectly handling property
arguments in certain functions. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-3416)

Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

24.04 LTS noble

• librust-openssl-dev – 0.10.57-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

22.04 LTS jammy

• librust-openssl-dev – 0.10.36-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

20.04 LTS focal

• librust-openssl-dev – 0.10.23-1ubuntu0.1~esm1