CVE-2023-0216 (GCVE-0-2023-0216)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-08 19:03 – Updated: 2025-11-04 19:14
VLAI
Title
Invalid pointer dereference in d2i_PKCS7 functions
Summary
An invalid pointer dereference on read can be triggered when an application tries to load malformed PKCS7 data with the d2i_PKCS7(), d2i_PKCS7_bio() or d2i_PKCS7_fp() functions. The result of the dereference is an application crash which could lead to a denial of service attack. The TLS implementation in OpenSSL does not call this function however third party applications might call these functions on untrusted data.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • invalid pointer dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OpenSSL OpenSSL Affected: 3.0.0 , < 3.0.8 (semver)
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Date Public
2023-02-07 00:00
Credits
Marc Schönefeld Tomáš Mráz
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