vulnerability
IBM AIX: openssl_advisory37 (CVE-2022-3786): Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect AIX
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
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8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 2022-11-01 | 2023-07-27 | 2025-04-24 |
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.
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