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OpenSSL X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow (CVE-2022-3602)

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OpenSSL X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow (CVE-2022-3602)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/01/2022
Created
11/02/2022
Added
11/01/2022
Modified
11/21/2022

Description

An attacker can craft a malicious email address to overflow four attacker-controlled bytes on the stack. This buffer overflow could result in a crash (causing a denial of service) or potentially remote code execution depending on stack layout for any given platform/compiler.

Solution(s)

  • auth-openssl-upgrade-3_0_7

References

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