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OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2022-3996)

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OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2022-3996)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/14/2022
Created
12/15/2022
Added
12/14/2022
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

If an X.509 certificate contains a malformed policy constraint and policy processing is enabled, then a write lock will be taken twice recursively. On some operating systems (most widely: Windows) this results in a denial of service when the affected process hangs. Policy processing being enabled on a publicly facing server is not considered to be a common setup. Policy processing is enabled by passing the `-policy' argument to the command line utilities or by calling the `X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()' function. Update (31 March 2023): The description of the policy processing enablement was corrected based on CVE-2023-0466.

Solution(s)

  • http-openssl-3_0_7-upgrade-3_0_7

References

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