NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting openssl package, versions <3.0.8-r0
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE318-OPENSSL-5513702
- published 8 Feb 2023
- disclosed 8 Feb 2023
Introduced: 8 Feb 2023
CVE-2023-0216 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.18 openssl to version 3.0.8-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openssl package and not the openssl package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.18 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.