vulnerability

OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2022-3786)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 1, 2022
Added
Nov 1, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

A buffer overrun can be triggered in X.509 certificate verification, specifically in name constraint checking. Note that this occurs after certificate chain signature verification and requires either a CA to have signed a malicious certificate or for an application to continue certificate verification despite failure to construct a path to a trusted issuer. An attacker can craft a malicious email address in a certificate to overflow an arbitrary number of bytes containing the `.' character (decimal 46) on the stack. This buffer overflow could result in a crash (causing a denial of service). In a TLS client, this can be triggered by connecting to a malicious server. In a TLS server, this can be triggered if the server requests client authentication and a malicious client connects.

Solution

http-openssl-3_0_7-upgrade-3_0_7
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