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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-08 19:03 – Updated: 2025-11-04 19:14
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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.
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CWE
  • invalid pointer dereference
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OpenSSL OpenSSL Affected: 3.0.0 , < 3.0.8 (semver)
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Credits
Marc Schönefeld Tomáš Mráz
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