GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-g323-fr93-4j3c Resource leakage when decoding certificates and keys

HIGH Published 2022-05-04 Modified 2022-06-17 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2022-1473
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
openssl-src
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-404, CWE-459
Reviewed
2022-06-17

Affected packages

• crates.io openssl-src: >= 300.0.0, < 300.0.6 → fixed in 300.0.6

Description

The OPENSSL_LH_flush() function, which empties a hash table, contains a bug that breaks reuse of the memory occuppied by the removed hash table entries. This function is used when decoding certificates or keys. If a long lived process periodically decodes certificates or keys its memory usage will expand without bounds and the process might be terminated by the operating system causing a denial of service. Also traversing the empty hash table entries will take increasingly more time. Typically such long lived processes might be TLS clients or TLS servers configured to accept client certificate authentication. The function was added in the OpenSSL 3.0 version thus older releases are not affected by the issue. Fixed in OpenSSL 3.0.3 (Affected 3.0.0,3.0.1,3.0.2).

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2022-1473 The OPENSSL_LH_flush() function, which empties a hash table, contains a bug that breaks reuse of the memory occuppied by the removed hash… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release weakness
  • CWE-459 Incomplete Cleanup weakness

References