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MSRC_CVE-2022-4450

Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft - Published: 2023-02-01 00:00 - Updated: 2024-08-15 00:00

Summary

Double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex

Notes

Additional Resources

To determine the support lifecycle for your software, see the Microsoft Support Lifecycle: https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle

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CVE-2022-4450 (GCVE-0-2022-4450)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-08 19:04 – Updated: 2025-11-04 19:14

Summary

The function PEM_read_bio_ex() reads a PEM file from a BIO and parses and decodes the "name" (e.g. "CERTIFICATE"), any header data and the payload data. If the function succeeds then the "name_out", "header" and "data" arguments are populated with pointers to buffers containing the relevant decoded data. The caller is responsible for freeing those buffers. It is possible to construct a PEM file that results in 0 bytes of payload data. In this case PEM_read_bio_ex() will return a failure code but will populate the header argument with a pointer to a buffer that has already been freed. If the caller also frees this buffer then a double free will occur. This will most likely lead to a crash. This could be exploited by an attacker who has the ability to supply malicious PEM files for parsing to achieve a denial of service attack. The functions PEM_read_bio() and PEM_read() are simple wrappers around PEM_read_bio_ex() and therefore these functions are also directly affected. These functions are also called indirectly by a number of other OpenSSL functions including PEM_X509_INFO_read_bio_ex() and SSL_CTX_use_serverinfo_file() which are also vulnerable. Some OpenSSL internal uses of these functions are not vulnerable because the caller does not free the header argument if PEM_read_bio_ex() returns a failure code. These locations include the PEM_read_bio_TYPE() functions as well as the decoders introduced in OpenSSL 3.0. The OpenSSL asn1parse command line application is also impacted by this issue.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

double-free

Assigner

openssl

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230207.txt	vendor-advisory
	https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=c…	patch
	https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=c…	patch
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-08

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	OpenSSL	OpenSSL	Affected: 3.0.0 , < 3.0.8 (semver) Affected: 1.1.1 , < 1.1.1t (custom)

Credits

CarpetFuzz Dawei Wang Marc Schönefeld Kurt Roeckx Matt Caswell

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