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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-3735: Moderate: openssl security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2018:3221)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-3735: Moderate: openssl security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2018:3221)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/28/2017
Created
07/05/2019
Added
06/10/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

While parsing an IPAddressFamily extension in an X.509 certificate, it is possible to do a one-byte overread. This would result in an incorrect text display of the certificate. This bug has been present since 2006 and is present in all versions of OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0g.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-openssl
  • centos-upgrade-openssl-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-openssl-devel
  • centos-upgrade-openssl-libs
  • centos-upgrade-openssl-perl
  • centos-upgrade-openssl-static

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