GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-g323-fr93-4j3c Resource leakage when decoding certificates and keys
HIGH
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- 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
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1473 advisory
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/issues/405 web
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-953464.pdf web
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=64c85430f95200b6b51fe9475bd5203f7c19daf1 web
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2022-0025.html web
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-02 web
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220602-0009 web
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20220503.txt web