Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pyOpenSSL  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-PYOPENSSL-1988214
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed29 Nov 2017

Introduced: 29 Nov 2017

CVE-2018-1000807  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pyOpenSSL package and not the pyOpenSSL package as distributed by Centos.

Python Cryptographic Authority pyopenssl version prior to version 17.5.0 contains a CWE-416: Use After Free vulnerability in X509 object handling that can result in Use after free can lead to possible denial of service or remote code execution.. This attack appear to be exploitable via Depends on the calling application and if it retains a reference to the memory.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 17.5.0.