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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-5991: Out-of-bounds Read

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-5991: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/27/2024
Created
10/02/2024
Added
10/01/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

In function MatchDomainName(), input param str is treated as a NULL terminated string despite being user provided and unchecked. Specifically, the function X509_check_host() takes in a pointer and length to check against, with no requirements that it be NULL terminated. If a caller was attempting to do a name check on a non-NULL terminated buffer, the code would read beyond the bounds of the input array until it found a NULL terminator.This issue affects wolfSSL: through 5.7.0.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-wolfssl

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