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Improper Certificate Validation Affecting mbedtls package, versions <2.4.2-r0

Severity

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0.0
high
0
10

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    5.1% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE320-MBEDTLS-7010219
  • published 23 May 2024
  • disclosed 20 Apr 2017
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Introduced: 20 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-2784 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-295 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 mbedtls to version 2.4.2-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mbedtls package and not the mbedtls package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

An exploitable free of a stack pointer vulnerability exists in the x509 certificate parsing code of ARM mbed TLS before 1.3.19, 2.x before 2.1.7, and 2.4.x before 2.4.2. A specially crafted x509 certificate, when parsed by mbed TLS library, can cause an invalid free of a stack pointer leading to a potential remote code execution. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker can act as either a client or a server on a network to deliver malicious x509 certificates to vulnerable applications.