Buffer Overflow Affecting openssl package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.49% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-OPENSSL-1569581
  • published25 Aug 2021
  • disclosed24 Aug 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-3712  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for OpenSSL.

Overview

OpenSSL is a SSL/TLS and Crypto toolkit. Deprecated in Mac OS and gone in iOS, this spec gives your project non-deprecated OpenSSL support.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. Openssl assumed ASN.1 strings to be NUL terminated. A malicious actor may be able to force an application into calling openssl function with a specially crafted, non-NUL terminated string to deliberately hit this bug, which may result in a crash of the application, causing a Denial of Service attack, or possibly, memory disclosure.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1