CVE-2023-0217
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-08 19:02
Modified
2024-08-02 05:02
Severity ?
Summary
NULL dereference validating DSA public key
References
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=23985bac83fd50c8e29431009302b5442f985096
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-08
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230207.txtVendor Advisory
Impacted products
OpenSSLOpenSSL
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