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USN-7891-1: rust-openssl vulnerabilities

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)

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