[Vulnerability] Vulnerability issue /opt/saltstack/salt/lib/libcrypto.so.3

[Jianlin-lv]

Description
The Nessus vulnerability scanner reported vulnerabilities related to Salt.
After upgrading the Salt component to the latest community release version 3007, one medium vulnerability remains unresolved upon rescanning.

The detail of the vulnerability:

Plugin ID	CVE	CVSS	Risk	Name	Solution	Plugin Output
192967	CVE-2024-4741	5.4	Medium	OpenSSL 3.2.0 < 3.2.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Upgrade to OpenSSL version 3.2.2 or later.	Path             : /opt/saltstack/salt/lib/libcrypto.so.3   Reported version : 3.2.1   Fixed version    : 3.2.2

The vulnerability is introduced by the file /opt/saltstack/salt/lib/libcrypto.so.3; this file is owned by salt-common.

# dpkg -S /opt/saltstack/salt/lib/libcrypto.so.3
salt-common: /opt/saltstack/salt/lib/libcrypto.so.3

# dpkg -l |grep -i salt-common
ii  salt-common                            3007.1                                  amd64        shared libraries that salt requires for all packages

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[dwoz]

This will get fixed in 3006.9 and 3007.2 as newer relenv versions are released.