GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-vxrh-cpg7-8vjr openssl-src subject to NULL dereference validating DSA public key
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-0217
- 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-476
- Reviewed
- 2023-02-08
Affected packages
• crates.io openssl-src: >= 300.0.0, < 300.0.12 → fixed in 300.0.12
Description
An invalid pointer dereference on read can be triggered when an application tries to check a malformed DSA public key by the `EVP_PKEY_public_check()` function. This will most likely lead to an application crash. This function can be called on public keys supplied from untrusted sources which could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service attack.
The TLS implementation in OpenSSL does not call this function but applications might call the function if there are additional security requirements imposed by standards such as FIPS 140-3.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-0217 An invalid pointer dereference on read can be triggered when an application tries to check a malformed DSA public key by the… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0217 advisory
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=23985bac83fd50c8e29431009302b5442f985096 web
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0012.html web
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-08 web
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230207.txt web