Code Affecting openssl package, versions >=1.0.0, <1.0.201


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
94.08% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-OPENSSL-471056
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed18 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Nov 2014

CVE-2015-0286  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-17  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade OpenSSL to version 1.0.201 or higher.

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 Code. OpenSSL is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. These attacks are possible because the ASN1_TYPE_cmp function doesn't correctly perform boolean-type comparisons allowing attacks to trigger invalid read operation and application crash through the use of an X.509 certificates.

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