CVE-2024-4741
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-13 10:20
Modified
2024-11-13 14:49
Severity ?
Summary
Use After Free with SSL_free_buffers
References
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/704f725b96aa373ee45ecfb23f6abfe8be8d9177
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/b3f0eb0a295f58f16ba43ba99dad70d4ee5c437d
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/c88c3de51020c37e8706bf7a682a162593053aac
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/e5093133c35ca82874ad83697af76f4b0f7e3bd8
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://github.openssl.org/openssl/extended-releases/commit/f7a045f3143fc6da2ee66bf52d8df04829590dd4
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20240528.txt
Impacted products
OpenSSLOpenSSL
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