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ghsa-x7wj-9rr2-gfcg

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-14 00:59

Modified

2025-04-20 03:32

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Crypto++ (aka cryptopp and libcrypto++) 5.6.4 contained a bug in its ASN.1 BER decoding routine. The library will allocate a memory block based on the length field of the ASN.1 object. If there is not enough content octets in the ASN.1 object, then the function will fail and the memory block will be zeroed even if its unused. There is a noticeable delay during the wipe for a large allocation.

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  "published": "2022-05-14T00:59:46Z",
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CVE-2016-9939 (GCVE-0-2016-9939)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-01-30 21:00

Modified

2024-08-06 03:07

Severity ?

CWE

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/12/7	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3748	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94854	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7IL5A6465IEPW5GAWGXB2ENJPFYVWTJM/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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