vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-8301: Improper Certificate Validation

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 27, 2017
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

LibreSSL 2.5.1 to 2.5.3 lacks TLS certificate verification if SSL_get_verify_result is relied upon for a later check of a verification result, in a use case where a user-provided verification callback returns 1, as demonstrated by acceptance of invalid certificates by nginx.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libressl
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